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Mergermarket seeks Berlin bureau chief

Mergermarket, an international financial news service, is looking to hire an experienced mergers and acquisitions Correspondent and Bureau Chief based in Berlin to cover the German and wider DACH market. The person will be responsible for the regional team, report on mergers and acquisitions and the capital markets and cover significant business events and conferences.

The right candidate will be hungry to produce exclusive stories, interview decision makers, CEOs, and research and write about companies to produce exclusive content for Mergermarket.

The candidate will have excellent English writing skills, speak fluent English and German, and bring at least some reporting experience from another financial news service, newspaper or online publication to the table. Experience of leading a small team of other reporters would also be welcome, but not essential.

Working knowledge of another European language is beneficial but not essential. The candidate should be willing to travel to key events and be eligible to work in the EU.

The successful candidate will be based full-time in our busy German office where our DACH sales and Customer Service teams are also located.

Mergermarket will provide you with the training and support needed to get you started.

To apply, please send a cover letter in English, resume and two writing samples in English to Elaine Green, elaine.green@mergermarket.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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