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Fortune seeks a senior finance and investing editor

Fortune seeks an experienced editor with expertise covering the business of banking and finance as well as the gyrations of the markets. The job will include managing a team of six reporters; editing both daily coverage and deeply reported features, for both Fortune.com and FORTUNE magazine; contributing to newsletters as a writer and editor; and playing a role in Fortune conferences, both from a programming and onstage perspective.

You will:

  • Have the energy and creativity to shape the way Fortune covers finance and investing. The publication is rebuilding its finance team and reestablishing itself as an authoritative analytical voice on these topics; you’ll guide reporters and writers in generating smart breaking-news takes, long-form narratives and scoops.
  • Know the key players in finance and investing.
  • Have a sharp eye for the way technological innovation and change are reshaping the industries you cover.
  • Think globally, with a strong sense of how global and domestic markets and economies affect each other.
  • Cultivate a network of outside contributors who will supplement our staff’s coverage.

You are:

  • Experienced. You will have no less than five years’ experience editing finance, personal-finance, or business news. Additional experience as a reporter and writer are a big plus.
  • Engaged. Your work ethic is formidable. Your competitive streak is healthy. Your collegiality is admirable. And since you’ll be managing one or two relatively junior writers, your patience and clarity of communication are impressive.
  • Digital. You understand how digital information is distributed today and are willing to tell stories in different ways for different mediums.
  • Excited. Fortune is in expansion mode, with a strong point of view and a new urgency to our storytelling. You’re ready to embody and evangelize that mission as an editor, writer and manager.

The position reports jointly to Fortune’s Digital Editor and Features Editor.

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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