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Huffington Post seeks business reporter

The Huffington Post is seeking a Business Reporter who can identify compelling business stories and help deliver them to a wide readership.

Responsibilities:

  • Selecting standout blog posts, submitted to the site, for feature treatment
  • Reading the blogosphere widely to identify new voices for the site
  • Recruiting bloggers and giving them a welcoming introduction to the community
  • Working with bloggers to polish and package their work for optimal impact (specifically: copy editing, writing headlines and adding images).
  • Aiding in the promotion of these stories
  • Brainstorming packages to tie content together across various topic areas — then executing on those ideas

Requirements for success:

  • 1-3 years editing for a website
  • Strong copy editing skills
  • Meticulous attention to detail
  • Talent for writing clicky headlines, and instinct for compelling artwork/illustration
  • Strong communication skills
  • Respect for sensitive and deeply personal subject matter
  • Independent thinking and (important!) a sense of humor
  • A willingness to fall down the “rabbit hole” on every platform where writers share their work — from WordPress to Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter and beyond​

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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