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BuzzFeed seeks deputy business editor

BuzzFeed is looking for an experienced deputy to work alongside our business editor in shaping daily coverage and providing day-to-day management for BuzzFeed’s growing business team.

This editor must have experience working on hard-hitting breaking news stories and deeply reported analysis and feature pieces that can stand out from mainstream business news coverage. He or she should have a strong desire to work with young reporters, elevating them to the next level with tips, contacts, and promotion on social media. This editor should be well versed across business sectors, particularly specialty retail, consumer technology, media and entertainment, education, hedge funds, private equity, M&A, and Wall Street, and have the ability to seamlessly transition between them.

He or she should have ideas about what BuzzFeed business coverage should look like, and be able to package stories that are powerful, timely, accurate, well-reported and troublemaking. This editor should have a sense of humor and understand that business news can be fun and doesn’t always have to be earnest and dry. He or she should also have thoughts on how to expand business coverage for maximum impact.

Candidates must also be interested in using a new media ecosystem — one where big news breaks first on the web and spreads across Twitter and Facebook, and in which images and gifs and screenshots can work to carry a narrative — to serve the timeless goals of telling great narratives to a mass audience and advancing important stories. A keen interest in management and quick metabolism for editing are essential.

The position is based in our NYC office, and we offer competitive compensation, benefits and an employee stock option program.

Responsibilities:

Partner with editorial managers to make coverage decisions in a fast-growing, ambitious New York newsroom
Add style, velocity, and craft to the work of talented reporters with varying levels of experience.
Handle day-to-day editing and managing of the business team in conjunction with the business editor.
Help manage reporters who are stepping in and out of the intense online news cycle.

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.