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CNET seeks a managing editor for news

Ideally located in New York area but remote opportunity.

What You’ll Do

  • Build out, develop and manage a team of reporters tasked with tackling topics with in-depth coverage.
  • Foster, flesh out and edit enterprise stories ranging from long-form profiles to exclusive features and scoops.
  • Help plan out the News team’s strategy, from special reports to drawing up coverage plans for big events.
  • Work with multiple CNET teams, from video producers to our product reviewers, to ensure we’re moving in lockstep with each other.

What We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years of experience writing and covering a beat for a general or consumer tech site.
  • BA/BS or equivalent experience in journalism preferred.
  • Experience managing reporters.
  • Exceptional writing skills.
  • Meticulous organizational abilities.
  • Comfortable operating under tight deadlines/breaking news situations

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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