Correspondent, Myanmar

Reuters is seeking an energetic and tenacious journalist with strong sources and great story ideas to join our Myanmar team as a correspondent.

The successful candidate will help deliver an outstanding news file, spanning breaking news, quick-turn analyses and deeply-reported initiative stories to shed light on Southeast Asia's deadliest ongoing conflict and its fallout.

Myanmar is at a delicate and decisive point in its history. Its formidable military has been pinned down by an assortment of armed groups, new and old.

Although cornered, the ruling junta retains enough firepower to inflict serious damage to its fragmented opponents, some of whom remain under the influence of regional powers like China.

In the balance lies the future of over 55 million people, a third of whom already require humanitarian assistance, and a crumbling economy that once showed great promise.

The ongoing chaos has also piled more misery on the minority Rohingya community, with many of their settlements destroyed in recent fighting and a new wave of refugees entering neighbouring Bangladesh, which is already home to over a million Rohingya.

The Myanmar correspondent will have the expertise and sources to delve into these varied but connected elements, reporting and writing exclusive and agenda-setting stories for a global audience.

About the Role

As Correspondent, Myanmar, you will:

• Write agenda-setting stories on Myanmar, cutting across subjects including the trajectory of the civil war, the state of the economy and displaced populations.
• Work alongside a small team of journalists and editors to closely monitor fast-moving developments and break news at speed.
• Be able to connect the dots, especially related to regional players such as China, India and the ASEAN bloc, identify trends and explain them to a global audience.
• Coordinate with visuals colleagues and use graphics and other story-telling elements to maximize the utility of stories.

About You

You're a fit for the role of Correspondent, Myanmar role if your background includes:

• A minimum of five years of journalistic experience, with strong sources within Myanmar.
• A proven track-record of generating compelling ideas and writing with authority across a broad range of topics on Myanmar.
• Fluent Burmese, with strong writing skills in English.
• An ability to remain calm under pressure and write accurately under tight deadlines.
• Experience as an effective team player and relentless competitiveness.

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What's in it for you

At Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

• Global Career: As a global company, we can offer a truly international career and progression opportunities
• Learning & Development: On the job learning and coaching. We also have a dedicated training team focused on the continuous development of our journalists
• Benefits: We offer competitive salary packages and market leading benefits including paid volunteering days
• Perks: Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the world's most important stories.

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