Detroit News seeks an auto reporter

The Business Desk of the Detroit News is seeking an enterprising reporter to join its award-winning Autos Team – emphasis on team.

The ideal candidate would be a self-starting beat reporter hungry for both regional and national competition. You’ll join reporters, an auto critic, a Washington correspondent and the business columnist to cover the global auto industry as it adapts to a fast-changing automotive landscape, challenges from Silicon Valley and the morphing world of mobility and electrification.

You’ll do a mix of breaking news, enterprise and will be expected to source across the automakers, suppliers, think tanks and lawmakers. Comfort working collaboratively is strongly desired.

Please submit a resume, cover letter and 3-5 samples of your work to Managing Editor Kelley Root, kroot@detroitnews.com.

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.