Business Insider seeks an associate editor for tech coverage

Business Insider is looking to hire an associate editor to help support the New York tech team, focusing on technology companies, consumer tech products, and larger enterprise projects.

Business Insider’s tech team is responsible for covering breaking news from major companies on the tech field, as well as product announcements, reviews, and cultural coverage. We’re looking for an editor who can assist reporters in the NYC office covering everything from antitrust investigations and Big Tech to IPOs, from the latest iPhone launch to video game reviews, from tech’s role in the 2020 election to labor and workforce changes, from Silicon Valley fashion slideshows to profiles about how YouTubers make their money, and more.

The associate editor will be responsible for editing stories, and for various administrative tasks, such as helping to establish strategies for making sure deadlines are met. Associate editors are also encouraged to field pitches, assign stories, and write their own stories when time allows.

The associate editor should have experience working in a fast-paced digital newsroom and coaching reporters. Here’s what we’re looking for:

Experience covering the tech industry and excitement about new products and innovations.
An urgent approach to covering the news.
A knack for recognizing budding stories, and an instinct for how best to tell them.
Proven editing skills, and the ability to work with a mix of story types, from breaking news to enterprise to profiles to slideshows.
Impeccable news judgment.
Strong organizational skills.

This is a full-time position and based in our New York office. Insider Inc. offers competitive compensation and full benefits packages.

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.