Full-Time

Dow Jones seeks a real time news reporter

Dow Jones Newswires, the real-time professional news service of The Wall Street Journal, seeks a dynamic, fast and analytical reporter who can cover corporate breaking news and can quickly pivot to providing our professional readership of more than 90 million institutional and retail investors with the insights they need.

This is an opportunity to write breaking news for the global authority in financial journalism. You will be on the front line of our real-time coverage, tasked with writing stories about mergers and acquisitions, executive changes, quarterly earnings and other major developments involving some of the most significant companies in the U.S. You will also figure out what is driving market movements, uncover interesting details buried in filings and extract information from company disclosures that could have broader significance.

You will:

  • Monitor and report on corporate breaking news
  • Quickly produce clear, error-free copy.
  • Produce quick snippets of analysis on market news for a professional investor audience.
  • Work an assigned shift Monday through Friday.

You have:

  • Initiative, flexibility, and the ability to identify and execute important stories on deadline.
  • Proven ability to write on deadline.
  • An ability to digest numbers and information and turn them into stories that serve a diverse mix of sophisticated market professionals around the world.
  • A keen eye for news and the ability to write quickly, accurately and authoritatively about business and financial developments.
  • Experience as a financial journalist.

The position will be based in New York and will report to Paul Ziobro, breaking news editor at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires.

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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