Moataz Mohamed Abdelrahiem Youssef, Financial Editor

Moataz Mohamed Abdelrahiem Youssef

Financial Editor

Anadolu Agency

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Journalism
Experience
21 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :21 years, 10 Months

Financial Editor at Anadolu Agency
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since June 2014

 Prepare, rewrite, edit copy news reports, stories from our reporters network around the world including adding background data, compiling information and publishing it to the Agency News Wire.
 Translating Financial reports from IMF, World Bank, etc from English to Arabic.
 Writing analysis and reports, news stories in Arabic about the economic, financial, developments on Worldwide, Regional, local level.
 Writing analysis and reports, news stories in Arabic about the economic, financial, developments on Worldwide, Regional, local level.
 Read copy or proof to detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax.
 Plan for the weekly and Daily News Agenda in coordination with the department head and the Agency reporters.
 Verify facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.

Content Manager at Orascom Telecom Ventures – Arab Finance News Portal
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2008 to June 2014

 Manage bilingual Arab Finance portal content, Oversee all editorial work, manage day to day coverage of news, Ensure that all the content conforms to a consistent style and quality
 Writes, edits, proofreads news articles for spelling, grammar, punctuation, syntax, check the news articles for readability and agreement with editorial policy
 Manage content team and lead them to a recommendation with what issues to be covered, recommending story ideas
 Determined daily news focus, key headlines and stories within tight deadlines
 Maintaining news operation within set budgets and ensuring accurate and timely production of the news
 Interact with Content Team to set editorial policy, assist the editors with a range of writing tasks and editorial work, especially story development and planning by conducting background research and analysis on a wide variety of issues
 Develop ongoing content strategy, including key content subject areas, formats, writing style, sources
 Writing analysis and reports, news stories in Arabic about the economic, financial, stock market developments on Daily, weekly basis
 Translating and editing news stories from English to Arabic, creating news articles based on comments, fundamental research issued from investment banks.
 Coordinating technical, Content, Creative design teams on projects designed to increase the readership, visits, and provide research and writing support on various projects
 Developing strategic relationships with important companies, institutions in Egypt, Gulf region to create effective communication with the Investor relations, public relations departments resulting in receiving and be updated by the companies developments
 Experience hiring and managing freelance writers, correspondences, assign tasks and news stories to them and managing the stories covering
 Preparing a full informative and news coverage for the most important events which contains ( the most updates news - analysis - Photo gallery - Forum - Polls )
 Revising, Creating and making sure of getting the daily, weekly, and monthly updates from our providers on time and Ensured that all the content within their respective content area is accurate and current
 Produces monthly editorials, e-newsletters and compile information from both internal and external sources
 Planning for each quarter with our Portal Development Committee, and General Manager for having more sections and channels on our sites in order to increase the hits on it
 Analyze data to evaluate success of editorial policy to affect content choices.
 Working with a cross-departmental team, maintain and develop the master content calendar for all web properties

Senior Web Editor at Pioneers Holding
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2007 to July 2008

 Established Pioneers - securities online trading portal for the customer online trading in the stock market by managing, writing and editing content, also coordinate with the developers, designers in creating the web site, data base, content Management system.
 Manage the financial & Stock market news of Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Syria on pioneers web site
 Determined daily news focus, key headlines and stories for online trading web portal within tight deadlines.
 Producing content for a range of e-newsletters, Mail shots
 Writing analysis, news reports, press releases, offers, proposals, marketing pieces.
 Coordinates work of the team in accordance with every website scope (pioneers ksa, pioneers trading, pioneers holding )
 Reads and evaluates material submitted for publication consideration
 Manages team of editors and content providers ( according to each site)
 Collaborated with Online Trade Financials executive, marketing, and functional business management to develop corporate and departmental online Trading objectives for company-wide web portal.
 Following up the department’s editorial plan, Understand and apply appropriate editorial standards depending on the project, target audience, and objectives for the message
 Interpreting web analytic information and using this to advise on, and implement editorial strategy
 Wrote and copy-edited customer-oriented content including copy for new services and event announcements, schedules, calendars, and company updates.
 Prioritize products or services based on potential sales opportunity.
 Work with the team to develop product and offer summaries, reviews, and other editorial content that is clear and informative, complete and accurate.
 Maintaining and developing strong market awareness to ensure sites are up to date and anticipate users’ needs, in particular an excellent knowledge of competitor sites

Web Editor at linkdotnet
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2002 to July 2007

 Participated obviously in delivering up to date high quality online news as part of the editorial teams of Masrawy.com, Arab Finance, MSN Arabia, and Link 0777.
 Create news stories, headlines, subheads and photo captions for news stories
 Translating and editing news, conducting interviews to be published online on the various websites owned by LinkDotNet
 Follow up the news feed from news agencies, freelancers editors and correspondents with both the technical department to guarantee the service quality and consistency on the Web site
 Carry out basic editorial duties such as searching for and selecting News and organizing it for publishing to appear on the news section of the websites
 Ability to evaluate and edit the content, structure, and format of a range of written material.
 Utilizes advanced word processing, procedures, and techniques to compile, type, revise, and edit documents and/or manuscripts, in accordance with pre-established specifications and procedural instructions.
 Evaluate, choose photographs or other artwork as needed.
 Coordinate news sections, which are updated minute by minute and cover special circumstances when extended news coverage is needed, such as a natural disaster or a theme issue.
 Preparation of reports on daily basis to managers
 Data comparison of competitors vs. the Product content.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Journalism
  • at Faculty of Mass Communication - Cairo University
  • May 2002

 General grade: Very good , The second on the department

Specialties & Skills

Translation
Writing
Web Editing
Business Journalism
Journalism
Proficiency in use of database, spreadsheet, word processing and search engine tools.
Deadline driven; able to perform under pressure, strong, demonstrated attention to detail
Ability to produce high quality in-depth reports and briefs for multiple internal and external aud
Ability to conduct extensive research in both English and Arabic
Ability to lead and coordinate multiple, concurrent projects and teams within multiple issue areas
Strong management skills and the ability to work collaboratively with staff and other departments.
Excellent skills in organizing, planning, prioritizing, and coordinating work activities.

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

International visitors leadership program (Economic and Business Journalism) (Training)
Training Institute:
US Department of State
Date Attended:
April 2012
Duration:
120 hours
Advanced Writing of Financial and Business News (Training)
Training Institute:
Thomson Reuters (London)
Date Attended:
May 2014
Duration:
40 hours
Google Media Academy (Training)
Training Institute:
Google
Date Attended:
September 2012
Duration:
32 hours