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Bloomberg News seeks e-commerce reporter

Bloomberg News seeks an outstanding reporter in San Francisco to cover e-commerce companies, including Amazon.com Inc., EBay Inc. and a pool of up-and-coming startups, such as Pinterest.

The reporter will be responsible for breaking news and crafting features about company strategy, evolving business models and expansion plans and senior management, including Jeff Bezos and John Donahoe.

The reporter will also cover trends in online retailing and aspects of the e-commerce startup world.

Adept at breaking news and cultivating sources, the applicant must possess excellent writing skills, a voracious appetite for reporting all angles of a story, and a can-do attitude that is both competitive and collaborative.

Qualifications:
-Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
-Experience working in a real-time news environment
-Minimum of three years of business journalism experience at a major newspaper or wire service is preferred
-Ability to write quickly and concisely under deadline pressure

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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