Full-Time

MarketWatch.com seeks a reporter/editor in London

MarketWatch.com seeks a versatile writer and editor to help shape the market’s day from London. The ideal candidate would be a go-getter equally comfortable writing and editing about markets, companies and economics, on the most interesting developments in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The ideal candidate has flair, speed, and impeccable news judgement, with an eye for distilling the newsiest bits out of the day’s events for our audience.

Essential job functions:

  • Covering markets under real-time deadlines.
  • Helping to craft MarketWatch’s popular, daily “Need to Know” premarket newsletter.
  • Editing daily market reports as well as stories on key corporate and economic developments.
  • Monitoring major financial markets and spot trends with an eye toward teasing out interesting angles and news nuggets.
  • Spotting stories from news partners that would complement the site’s coverage.

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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