The Role

Bloomberg News seeks a highly motivated, self-starting reporter for its Houston bureau to cover ethanol production and markets in North and South America. Knowledge of the economy, financial markets and business is essential, and at least five years of business writing experience at a major newspaper or wire service is preferred. The successful applicant will break news under real-time deadline pressure and work on enterprise stories and features. The candidate should be comfortable working within a team environment and should have a strong drive to break news.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Experience working in a real-time news environment
• Minimum of five years of business journalism experience at a major newspaper or wire service is preferred
• Ability to write quickly and concisely under deadline pressure
• Fluency in Portuguese is helpful

The Company

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 300,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 13,000 people in 185 locations around the world.