Full-Time

Barron’s seeks a senior energy writer

Barron’s is seeking a veteran business energy journalist to launch a new energy newsletter franchise aimed at retail investors, financial advisors and other readers, while covering an industry that is experiencing enormous growth and change at the same time.

You Will:

  • Work with senior leadership and other reporters to create a new energy newsletter that will consist of exclusive insights and data pulled from OPIS, a company owned by Barron’s parent Dow Jones.
  • Outside of the newsletter, write analysis of major news related to this specific beat and original enterprise pieces for Barron’s main news site and its magazine.
  • Dig deep and explain news in real time to understand how events are unfolding in the C-suites of energy giants, Washington or on the ground.

You Have:

  • Skilled writer; news instincts; ability to step back from daily news and write analysis of the big picture; close familiarity with energy markets; working understanding of investing and what investors are interested in; knowledge of what works for newsletters
  • At least 5 years of reporting and writing in a major newsroom on business topics, particularly energy
  • [we don’t have any educational background requirements]
  • Barron’s strongly values teamwork, so the ability to collaborate with reporters, editors, and our visual journalists is a must.

Interested parties should send a resume, cover letter and no more than 3 clips in PDF form to David.Cho@barrons.com or Bob.Rose@barrons.com and apply through the link on this job posting.

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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