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MarketWatch.com seeks a markets reporter

Rising inflation, COVID chaos and economic uncertainty! What a time to cover financial markets! MarketWatch seeks a reporter who can separate the news from the noise and distill the break-neck swings in stocks and bonds into smart, punchy prose. Speed is important here, but we’re also interested in candidates who are accurate and can make connections others miss, spotting trends, insights, and longer-term implications that will give our audience the information they need to make savvy choices.

The candidate will be required to write daily columns, cover spot news, bang out short pulses, as well as deliver deeper dives. This reporter needs the ability to explain complex market analysis in a way that engages readers on our site and across other platforms.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

  • monitoring all major financial markets, spotting trends and integrating into sharp, readable copy
  • writing headlines and news “pulses” under real-time deadlines
  • be in regular contact with traders, analysts, strategists and economists
  • writing markets enterprise stories and features
  • breaking out short news items into full stories
  • illustrating moves in markets with easy to read charts and graphs

JOB SPECIFICATIONS:

Candidates must have a working understanding of stock and bond markets, as well as currency, commodities and other assets. Must be able to work in a high-pressure environment and be able to interact with grace with a team of reporters across all of our bureaus.

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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