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Business Insider/Insider seek ME for diversity and inclusion

Business Insider/Insider is hiring a managing editor to help us staff and run our growing digital newsroom. This ME will focus on making our newsroom more diverse.
We’re looking for someone who is an excellent communicator, is organized, and has endless enthusiasm for digital journalism and for helping their colleagues be great at their jobs. We’re also looking for someone who is committed to, and excited about continuously improving diversity and inclusion.
Some responsibilities will include:
  • Maintaining existing, and establishing new recruiting relationships with HBCUs and other diverse undergraduate and graduate programs.
  • Networking with established journalists to help our team expand our current networks.
  • Maintaining (and building upon) our current relationships with journalism groups like AAJA, NABJ, NLGJA, NAHJ, SAJA, and more.
  • Attending conferences to continue to learn more about how we can make our newsroom more diverse and inclusive, and expand our networks.
  • Representing Insider on panels and in media on topics like newsroom management in a digital era.
  • Working with our Director of Editorial Training to ensure our editorial and career development training is inclusive and effective for everyone.
  • Helping run and improve our fellowship program.
  • Recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding new editorial hires.
  • Joining the Editorial Leadership team and helping to make Insider Inc. a great place to work.

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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