MarketWatch.com seeks a high-metabolism markets editor in New York

MarketWatch.com seeks a high-metabolism markets editor and writer who can distill moves in the yield curve to our audience as easily as breaking down the vagaries of the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average, with smart, punchy prose and sharp,clear-headed analysis. Speed is important here, but we’re most interested in candidates who can connect the dots for our readers and identify correlations or tease out insights that others miss.

This candidate spots trends easily, and also has a knack for sorting out the implications of market gyrations that will give our audience of investors and advisers the information they need to make both sense of the news and smart decisions.

This editor will be tasked with helping ensure that the site has the most important stories likely to have the biggest impact and also get MarketWatch counted on the latest trends in financial markets during the U.S. trading day.

You are a player coach who will be required to edit and write daily columns, cover spot news, bang out short pulses, pen deeper dives, as well as commissioning, editing, publishing and shepherding this coverage to completion. That’s all while operating gracefully under pressure.

This editor/reporter possesses the ability to explain complex market analysis in a way that engages readers on our site and across other platforms and is clear enough to captivate sophisticated market junkies and newbies equally.

Work in a collegial and collaborative environment knowing that the backdrop of hot inflation, rising interest rates and belligerence brewing in Eastern Europe makes our work more vital than ever.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Monitor all major financial markets, spotting trends and integrating into sharp, readable copy
Write headlines and news “pulses” under real-time deadlines
Edit and publishing key market columns and wire copy
Be in regular contact with traders, analysts, strategists and economists
Write markets enterprise stories and features
Break out short news items into full stories
Illustrate moves in markets with easy to read charts and graphs

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.