Full-Time

Barron’s seeks a tech investing senior writer

Barron’s is seeking an experienced journalist to cover tech stocks and write big features about the technology landscape from Big Tech firms to more disruptive start-ups.

The ideal candidate should be:

  • Knowledgeable and passionate about the tech industry, as well as technology’s transformative effect on every other industry, with an extensive network of relevant sources and a practical understanding of the issues investors consider when making investment decisions
  • Experienced in analyzing corporate financial statements, explaining corporate finance and strategy in a compelling and accessible way
  • Comfortably using reporting and objective analysis to find inefficiencies in the marketplace and to make stock and sector-specific calls
  • Strong views on financial markets
  • Experience writing in-depth feature articles and quick insightful pieces of analysis
  • Accustomed to and energized by the pace of a digital newsroom and reliable at turning in excellent stories under tight deadline pressures
  • Experienced in data analysis and in collaborating with designers on data visualizations
  • Excited about experimenting with different forms of storytelling, on a variety of digital platforms as well as in print
  • Comfortable engaging with audiences on video, podcasts, and at live events
  • Relentlessly committed to factual accuracy

We’re looking for someone with at least 10+ years reporting and writing in a major newsroom on business topics.

Interested parties should send a resume, cover letter and no more than 3 clips in PDF form to David.Cho@barrons.com bob.rose@barrons.com, and alex.eule@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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