CNNTravel and CNNMoney are looking for a senior writer in New York to cover the business of aviation.
We’re looking for a talented and inspired beat reporter who wants to own the subject across a wide range of channels — where aviation touches innovation, business and consumers.
Knowledge of aviation is a plus, but we’ll happily take a passionate neophyte over an “I’ve seen it all” insider any day. Discover, report and write the most important aviation stories of the day, week, month and year.
What will you be doing?
- Covering breaking news
- Developing strong and distinctive enterprise storylines
- Writing compelling stories and the headlines that sell them
- Finding ever more creative ways to tell stories
- Working closely with editors, video and TV journalists, designers, and programmers to ensure your stories are seen by millions
- Collaborating with teams large and small to assist the growing CNNMoney newsroom.
- Mentoring other members of the newsroom and playing a leadership role where appropriate
What do we need from you?
- Ideal candidates will have 5-plus years of writing and reporting experience.
- Strong research, interviewing and writing skills.
- Proven experience covering a beat
- Some knowledge of financial markets and a keen interest in investing and business news.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work in a fast high pressure environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Television-Film Production, Communications, or related discipline or equiv. work experience.
To apply, go here.
Chris RoushChris 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.