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Barron’s seeks assistant managing editor for investing

Barron’s, a Dow Jones & Co. publication, is seeking to hire an assistant managing editor for investing.

Job Description

  • With Investing Managing Editor, set editorial strategy and ensure that Barron’s investing, personal finance, and funds coverage is always ambitious, relevant, distinctive, and forward-looking
  • Manage writers, reporters, and freelancers
  • Conceive and assign features, columns, and a variety of digital pieces
  • Edit content fororiginality, intellectual rigor,accuracy, and persuasive storytelling
  • Collaborate with designers to create clear, compelling graphics
  • Enforce high quality standards and deadlines, and continually look for ways to improve editorial operations
  • Work with the Barron’s audience team to analyze data on reader engagement with markets content, and use this information to help shape editorial direction and experiments

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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