Bloomberg Industry seeks an investigative reporter

Bloomberg Industry Group is looking for an investigative reporter.

You will bring an investigative mindset to business and legal matters and produce stories with impact. You will write hard-hitting stories that affect change and break down complex issues clearly, accurately, and in a way that makes readers take notice.

What you will do:

Spot regulations, policy decisions, legal developments, and daily stories that need more scrutiny and then know how to research and report to find the deeper story.
Investigative stories that sound the alarm, changing laws and affecting policy.
Meticulously report and fact-check your work.
Work well with your colleagues across the Bloomberg Industry Group newsroom, partnering on big stories and using their expertise to elevate your work and theirs.
Be able to identify which stories deserve attention – and which do not. Being able to manage your time well is the key to producing consistently good work.

Write clearly and concisely on a range of complex issues, always with an eye toward grabbing readers attention.

What you will need to have:

An ability to write crisply and clearly about complex issues.
Excellent source development, time management and interviewing skills.
The proven ability to obtain documents and data through FOIA requests and the ability to work with data to find stories. You don’t need to be a data expert, but you should know your way around a spreadsheet.

At least seven years’ worth of experience as a journalist.
A Bachelor’s degree.

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.