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Forbes seeks reporter for wealth team

Forbes is looking for an inquisitive, investigative reporter to cover the world’s most successful—and richest—capitalists. This person will join the Wealth team, the group behind Forbes’ largest franchises: The Forbes 400, World’s Billionaires and America’s Richest Families.

The role is twofold. The first part involves one of the greatest hunts in business journalism: estimating the fortunes of these wealthy businesspeople. It’s an exercise that’s global in scope. You might value a mansion on the Dead Sea one day, a Norwegian gaming startup the next.

Our best reporters don’t conclude the chase there. They take it a step further, writing magazine features and online stories about these entrepreneurs and heirs. Forbes’ writers have produced recent cover stories about Instagram’s Kevin Systrom, WhatsApp’s Jan Koum and Spanx’s Sara Blakely—and captured major awards for investigations into Saudi prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Angolan kleptocrat Isabel dos Santos. Other narratives focused not on how these people accumulate their wealth but on how they spend it. One writer followed a billionaire across Lake Baikal in a feat of Siberian exploration. Another showed us a different side of Elon Musk, creating a down-to-Earth portrait of the man with his mind in the stars.

Requirements:
•Experience in business journalism
•Experience analyzing financial statements and SEC fillings is a major plus.
•Language skills also highly prized in this international endeavor.
•1-2 years relevant work/internship experience
•Bachelor’s Degree

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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