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Axios seeks a tech editor

Axios is a digital media company that gets you smarter, faster with news that matters. We’re hiring a Technology Editor to help oversee our technology vertical.

Why it matters: This individual will work with the Technology Managing Editor to guide Axios’ coverage of the collision of technology, business and politics in a rapidly changing landscape — and how it’s reshaping the economy and how we live and work.

Go deeper: The Tech Editor will have the following responsibilities:

  • Oversee daily coverage of technology news, including through our daily tech newsletter Login, and conceive larger data-driven and analytical stories putting this fast-changing world into context for readers
  • Work closely with the editors on other topics like business and politics to help cover stories that cross beats
  • In addition to editing, this person will be able to:
    •  report and write stories
    • Work with the Newsdesk to ensure comprehensive coverage of the day’s news
    • Manage a team of 3-5 journalists

The details: Ideal candidates will embody an entrepreneurial spirit, a passion for Axios’ mission and have the following skills:

  • Editing experience in a fast-paced news environment
  • Strong knowledge of the technology beat
  • Experience working across teams to produce quality content
  • Demonstrated knowledge of digital and social media landscape
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills
  • Ability to assign and manage multiple stories at once

Don’t forget: 

  • Competitive salary
  • Health insurance (100% paid for individuals, 75% for families)
  • Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
  • 401K
  • Generous vacation policy, plus company holidays
  • Company equity
  • Commuter and cell phone benefit
  • A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
  • Annual learning and development stipend

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.

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