Full-Time

The Wrap seeks a senior business reporter

TheWrap is hiring a seasoned business reporter to join our team and help anchor our coverage of the entertainment business. The Senior Business Reporter will be tasked with ideating, writing and reporting on coverage of the business of entertainment, including film, television and media, with breaking news, deeply reported stories and earnings coverage and analysis. The ideal candidate is well-sourced within the industry and with analysts and can quickly turn around a sharp story on the biggest developments that are shaping entertainment today. Excellent journalism and reporting skills are a must.

Required skills:

  • 5-7 years of experience working in a digital newsroom or wire service
  • Sourcing within the entertainment industry
  • Ability to analyze and report on earnings and financial performance
  • Superior news judgment and writing skills
  • Passion for entertainment news and the players involved
  • Proficiency on a CMS such as WordPress
  • Excellent SEO skills
  • Typical salary range: $100,000 – $115,000

Please submit clips to alexei.barrionuevo@thewrap.com and adam.chitwood@thewrap.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.

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