Senior Correspondent
About this role
Love reporting on financial regulation trends?
Keen to dig deeper into regulatory risks?
Have great writing skills?
About the role
The core role is covering financial services legislation and regulation, with a focus on the UK. MLex seeks to get ahead of the procedural story through deep-dive analysis of current and emerging trends to anticipate where regulatory risks may lie. It’s a high-pressure beat in which there’s an expectation that you’ll break market-moving news while offering the forward-looking insight that helps inform decision-makers.
About our team
MLex, a LexisNexis company, is an innovative, global news organization providing exclusive market insight, analysis and commentary on regulatory risk. MLex’s coverage spans the world’s foremost regulators in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America, offering reporting of regulatory threats and opportunities.
MLex helps LexisNexis better serve the rapidly changing customer needs in the area of legal and regulatory news, insight and analysis. MLex operates out of various offices around the world including London, Brussels, Washington D.C., Hong Kong, San Francisco and Sao Paulo.
Responsibilities
- Conduct research and interviews, turn around urgent copy and write to deadline
- Identify stories that appeal to the readership. Use expertise to write big-impact investigations and commentary pieces
- Support senior journalists and editors by researching news stories or preparing information for coverage
- Understand and explain complex regulatory or policy topics, exercise strong news judgement and ensure attention to detail
Requirements
- Great reporting, media or publishing industry experience or knowledge
- Collaborative approach with the ability to work across international teams
- Commitment to producing high-quality, accurate reporting
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Fluent command of English; ability in other European languages an advantage
- Newsroom experience, ideally from covering financial services regulation
Work in a Way That Works for You
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working Pattern
Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
About the Business
LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.
We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.
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Company at a glance
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.
Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.
Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.
RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs more than 36,000 people over 40% of whom are in North America.
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Top Benefits
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Shared parental leave
- Study assistance
- Sabbaticals
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