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Business Insider seeks a tech reporter

Business Insider’s tech team is looking for a full-time reporter to help cover enterprise and business computing — including software, hardware, and cloud services.

Here’s what we need:

  • A proven ability to write about business computing — and the companies and people behind it — in plain English without being dull.
  • Experience covering OracleHPSAPSalesforceIBMDellCisco, or other large-cap tech companies who sell mostly to businesses.
  • Experience covering Slack, Docker, Dropbox, Asana, or other hot privately-held startups in the business technology space.
  • Basic technical chops — you don’t need experience running an IT shop, but you must understand and not be intimidated by specs and acronyms.
  • A good understanding of what CIOs and IT managers think about and look for and the issues they’re facing today, like the consumerization of IT and cloud computing.
  • A strong sense of skepticism and immunity to hype.
  • An open mind and flexible approach to writing and reporting.
  • A desire to write for a fast-moving online-only publication — we are not a print magazine and don’t work like one.

If this sounds like your dream job, APPLY HERE with a resume and cover letter.

This opening is immediate and is based out of our San Francisco office. Business Insider offers competitive compensation packages complete with benefits.

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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