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International Business Times seeks weekend editor

The International Business Times is seeking a veteran editor to lead its weekend coverage.

The weekend editor must be well-versed in all areas of news and be able to identify trending topics and develop stories from politics and world news to entertainment and breaking news.

Responsibilities include assigning and writing stories, copy editing and managing the front page of IBTimes.com. The weekend editor is responsible for four 10-hour shifts each week, preferably Thursday to Sunday.

The two weekday shifts are reporting slots that report to the breaking news editor.

All shifts must be performed from IBT¹s New York office. Interested applicants should send a cover letter, clips and resume to Mark Bonner at m.bonner@ibtimes.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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