The Company

Few organizations can keep up with the fast-paced, 24/7 nature of today's media coverage; even fewer can claim to have helped shape it. Bloomberg has long been a leading source of data and news and presents one of the most challenging environments in financial journalism. Bloomberg offers a unique opportunity to produce real-time stories that shape the markets and our world.

The Role

Bloomberg News is seeking to hire an Economic Data Reporter in our Sao Paulo office to expand economic data coverage in Latin America. The successful candidate will extract economic data from press releases in English, Portuguese, and Spanish under real-time deadline pressure and survey economists ahead of indicators. The candidate will need to be fast and accurate in taking data and turning it into table-based stories for our clients, working closely with other reporters and editors to help with our news coverage. The person in this role must have a minimum of one year of experience covering or working with economic indicators. This individual must also be fluent in Portuguese and English. Fluency in Spanish is a plus. The ability to use Excel spreadsheets, including familiarity with VBA and macros, is required.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum of one year of experience covering or working with economic indicators
• Understanding of economics to determine what data releases are important enough to cover and what data within those releases should be emphasized
• Ability to write introductions and headlines for economic data tables in English and Portuguese
• Ability to use Excel spreadsheets, including familiarity with VBA and macros, is essential
• Experience working in a real-time news environment
• Fluency in spoken Portuguese and English is essential
• Fluency in spoken Spanish is desirable