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Business Insider seeks night news editor

Business Insider is hiring a night news editor. We are expanding our breaking news coverage and looking for individuals who have excellent news instincts and an obsession with staying ahead of the news cycle.

The night news editor will:

edit and publish posts written by our news reporters
keep an eye out for breaking news, assign them to reporters and come up with compelling follow-up stories
coordinate with front-page editor on story placement and alert them to newly published stories that should be highlighted on the front page
write several stories a night, as well as prepping and publishing contributor content

The ideal candidate is a news addict with at least a few years of editorial experience who is comfortable with managing a team of reporters, assigning and editing stories.

Interested? Submit your resume and a cover letter here. Including a link to your portfolio in the cover letter is optional but recommended.

Please note: This job requires that you work full-time from our Manhattan headquarters. 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.