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Fortune seeks reporter to cover general business news

Staff Reporter, Fortune, will work New York headquarter to cover general business news. This is a key role for an energetic self-starter who wants to represent a major business title. Those who don’t possess a deep enthusiasm for digital media and business news need not apply.

You will:

Cover key companies and trends, creating original, short-form stories on tight deadlines
Track emerging trends, collaborating with New York editors
Collaborate on the production of video, mobile and social content as needed
Generate story ideas and creative approaches to storytelling
Write quick, off the news stories and know how to aggregate
Use SEO and social strategies to inform your writing and reporting

You are:

Proven: You know how to cover an event or conference and come up with fresh angles and takes on trending news.
A fast learner: What you don’t know, you’re eager to learn. You’re curious and ask lots of questions and are adaptive.
Have a passion for writing: You make beautiful sentences that aren’t empty – your reporting skills shine through anything you produce.

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.