RTO Insider seeks a New England correspondent

Fast-growing trade publication covering the electric power industry and climate change policy seeks energetic, inquisitive beat reporter.

Your job will revolve around coverage of ISO New England, which manages the New England electric grid, and state climate policy.

We seek someone able to translate complex issues into readable prose. Knowledge of economics, statistics, business concepts and basic physics is helpful.

We are building The Wall Street Journal of the electric power industry. I am an award-winning former reporter and editor with The Philadelphia Inquirer and Bloomberg who believes trade publications don’t have to be dull.

We will pay a very competitive salary (above NewsGuild scale) for the right person.

Send resume, and up to five of your best clips to rich.heidorn@rtoinsider.com

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.