Full-Time

Bloomberg Industry Group seeks a content editor

You will work with reporters from pitch to publication – coaching them, driving coverage, and producing high-quality stories both short and long.

Your work will be featured on our consumer platforms and create value for our customers across channels for legal, government and financial professionals on the Bloomberg Law and BGOV services and the Bloomberg terminal. You are on the front line of our coverage, producing daily and enterprise copy alongside some of the most talented reporters in the industry, and helping us elevate our coverage, break more news, and create a newsroom culture of excellence.What you will do:

  • Produce stories that inform and delight our audiences.
  • Seriously, it’s that first thing. But you will also get to coach reporters on how to break more and bigger stories, help us select terrific feature ideas, make sure we meet deadlines, and pitch ideas for videos and podcasts.

You need to have:

  • Have exceptional curiosity and news judgment to unpack complicated legal and government actions, and then to help reporters make them interesting.
  • Demonstrate excellent editing and writing skills.
  • Be highly collaborative and show the ability to manage change, influence others in the newsroom, and communicate with reporters and editors of various backgrounds and experience levels.
  • Have excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, along with the ability to juggle stories and meet tight newsroom deadlines.
  • Be a self-starter who sets high standards and leads by personal example.
  • A bachelor’s degree required.
  • Five-or-more years of experience in journalism.

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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