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Dow Jones seeks ME for new digital media product

Dow Jones is looking for a full time Managing Editor for a new digital media product aimed at fresh eyes. The product will be a self-contained business with enterprise and startup culture baked into its DNA.

We’re seeking an experienced managing editor with superior management skills and familiarity with both the technology industry and Web publishing to be our Managing Editor.

We have a small staff covering a wide range of topics.

Thus, you need to have a wide range of skills from traditional ME tasks like, including writing, strategic, assigning, line editing, and planning, well as keeping the trains running and the staff humming across multiple locations.

Requirements:

  • Your organizational skills must be honed to a razor sharp edge.
  • You should boast intimate knowledge of best practices in SEO and social promotion.
  • You should possess the ability to deal with a wide range of creative personalities and to thrive within the confines of a large multinational corporation.
  • You need to have at least 4+ years working in an editorial management position for a large publication.
  • Familiarity with technology is a must; experience writing and editing stories about consumer technology is recommended but not mandatory.
  • Most important, we seek someone smart, funny, talented, and creative to join our team and help us publish a sardonic, witty, photo-driven site aimed at millennials through 35; with an eye to stories, virality, business, reputation and social sharing.
  • BA or BS degree, preferably in a journalism related field

The managing editor will lead a small team of reporters and bloggers through the entire publication process – generating ideas, guiding reporters, editing copy and publishing stories. Successful applicants should be both detail-oriented and goal-driven. The ability to motivate writers and bloggers is vital, as is the broad vision to help shape a growing enterprise on the tech and business side.

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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