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Business Insider seeks evening copy editor

Business Insider is hiring a copy editor to cover the evening shift Monday through Friday. This is a full-time position.

This person will work in Business Insider’s New York City headquarters, editing copy on screen for grammar, punctuation, spelling, sense, and Business Insider style.

We are looking for someone who can work quickly and independently, usually without the luxury of querying reporters and other editors.

Attention to detail is necessary but so is speed.

Requirements:

Two years of professional copy-editing experience, preferably at a news website.
Familiarity with AP style, content-management systems, social media, and instant messaging.
Team player with a positive attitude and a sense of humor.
Work Monday through Friday, from 2:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Pass a two-part editing test on page and on screen.

In addition, please complete this assignment and include it with your cover letter:

Choose an article on Business Insider that is in need of copy editing. Send along an annotated version of the article with your edits.

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.