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Business Insider seeks strategy reporter

Business Insider is hiring a full-time reporter for its Strategy vertical, one of the fastest-growing sections of the world’s No. 1 digital business publication.

Candidates should be comfortable writing quick, aggregated stories that highlight the most interesting angles of the day’s news, while simultaneously working on reported medium-length and long-form features.

Ideal candidates will have:

Insatiable curiosity
A strong voice and the ability to write with authority
Interest in digital media and how readers consume news on the web
Previous writing experience, preferably business
At least a Bachelor’s degree
Journalism degree and/or background preferred
Copy-editing skills, light HTML and Photoshop experience, and knowledge of social media are also useful

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.