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Fox Business seeks a deputy managing editor

Fox Business Network is looking to hire a deputy managing editor.

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Assist the managing editors with editorial direction, breaking news & assign reporters relevant stories while helping mentor/manage team members
  • Conceptualize and execute original reporting, including long-term projects when possible, conducting interviews (mostly by phone or email)
  • Help oversee reporting on breaking financial markets, and corporate & economic news events that occur, writing quickly and precisely to help solidify Fox News Digital as the go-to site for developing stories
  • Source national and international media for stories that resonate with the FOX Business audience, aggregating with complete and proper attribution
  • Present all stories, original, breaking, and aggregated, in an accessible, consistent, and compelling style
  • Collaborate closely with editors and fellow reporters, including frequent coloration on stories with FOX Business Network as well

What You Will Need

  • Minimum of five years of experience covering business news and national newsroom experience and a minimum of three years of managerial experience
  • Knowledge of AP style is vital, as is a clear and crisp writing style
  • Experience in managing and mentoring team members
  • Familiar with economic reports, corporate earnings, SEC filings
  • Possess a firm grasp of current events and a desire to be precise, quick, and accurate in presenting the news to the vast
  • Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment and work under pressure in a fast-paced newsroom environment
  • Ability to be flexible and can work on some holidays as needed; possess “on-call” mentality and be prepared to work under emergency or breaking news conditions

NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEAL BREAKER

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

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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