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CNBC.com seeking technology editor

CNBC Digital is looking for an experienced business journalist to inspire and shape its technology coverage and ensure CNBC is a must read and a must share among investors, business decision makers and industry cognoscenti.

The technology editor will be responsible for all tech news, feature and opinion coverage across CNBC’s digital platforms. The successful candidate will work with a small team of digital and TV reporters and contributors to make sure CNBC leads as well as follows the stories and issues of the day.

The technology editor will be focused on offering compelling and engaging journalism that draws on a variety of storytelling formats, from articles to videos to slideshows. This is a key position on the CNBC Digital enterprise desk, reporting to the Deputy Managing Editor, Enterprise.

Specifically, the technology editor will generate ideas, assign articles, challenge reporters to come up with original story angles and decide which ones merit focus. The editor will have an appreciation for the role of voice and edit stories for news, clarity, context and engagement.

He or she will be deeply sourced, and be familiar with key influencers and opinion shapers in technology, whom he or she will commission to offer blog posts and opinion pieces. The tech editor will be an active participant on the social web, tapping into social platforms to report and drive audience engagement while delivering highly shareable content.

The technology editor will maintain relevant section pages and ensure our material employs SEO best practices. The role will require someone with extensive text editing experience and deep knowledge of at least one business news beat, preferably tech.

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.

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