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Business Insider is hiring an innovation reporter

Business Insider is hiring a reporter to join our science and innovation team. The reporter will focus on design, cities, forward-thinking economic and workplace policies, food, and everything in between.

Our style is smart, conversational, exciting, and geared toward a general audience. As a reporter on the science and innovation team, you’ll be comfortable writing quick stories that highlight the most interesting angles of the day’s news, while simultaneously working on reported medium-length and long-form features. You will also know how to differentiate reality from spin and have an ability to find the real story hiding in announcements and news events.

Ideal candidates will have:

Previous writing experience, preferably related to one of the aforementioned topics
Insatiable curiosity and an ability to identify the heart of a story quickly
A strong voice and writing style that keeps readers engaged
An understanding of digital media and how readers consume news on the web
Familiarity with SEO best practices
Prior experience working in a newsroom

APPLY HERE with your resume and cover letter, and tell us why this would be your dream job.

The position is full-time in our New York City headquarters. Business Insider offers competitive compensation packages complete with benefits.

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.