Inc.com, the website for Inc. magazine, seeks a Senior Editor with a passion for online business news and a deep interest in entrepreneurs and their stories. Inc. is the voice of the American entrepreneur.
We inspire, inform, and celebrate the risk-takers and curious go-getters at the centers of innovation and new business development.
Responsibilities Include:
- analyze real-time traffic and social data to program the Inc.com homepage;
- write a review regular traffic reports for staff and columnists with summaries, including analysis, recommendations and action steps;
- collaborate with social media team to promote content;
- edit and mentor reporters;
- recruit and edit columnists;
- write must-click headlines;
- manage editorial packages.
The Ideal Candidate Has:
- zeal for web analytics;
- experience in data-driven decision-making;
- exceptional talent for writing irresistible web headlines;
- excellent editing skills;
- superior news judgment;
- a strong voice
- a sense of fun;
- an intuitive grasp of what gets shared online;
- a dedication to web journalism;
- a facility with visual storytelling and video;
- at least three years as a business or financial journalist.
The job is based in Manhattan and reports to the Executive Editor of Inc.com.
To apply, go here.
Chris RoushChris 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.