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Digiday seeks media reporter

Digiday is hiring a hungry and self-starting media reporter with 1-3 years experience writing, reporting, blogging and editing to help expand our media and publishing coverage into the breaking news and real-time realm.

Responsibilities include the following and will expand based upon company needs:

– Pitch and write two to three posts a day banking of trending news in the media and publishing space (eg: a look at the first day of Instant Articles along with publisher feedback, CNN launches a new distributed Web video network, Twitter taps a New York Times’ veteran to run Moments, etc)

– Be able to identify what makes for a good media-business “Digiday” story

– A willingness to pick up a phone, attend offsite events and cultivate a network of sources in the industry

– Understand — or be willing to learn — the business-side of the media and publishing industry.

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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