Wall Street Journal seeks Washington columnist

The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau seeks a columnist to cover economics and economic policy.

This columnist will be the lead economics correspondent at The Wall Street Journal. The ability to both break news and to conceive and execute broader feature stories is important, as is the ability to write for both print and online audiences.

Experience covering legislation and executive-branch departments in Washington is important.

Knowledge of economic debates would be useful.

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.