Categories: Journo Jobs

MLex seeks IRS reporter

MLex is seeking a reporter for a new publication, IRS:WATCH. The successful candidate will have strong interviewing and writing skills and a demonstrated ability to be proactive in shaping MLex’s coverage of the Internal Revenue Service.

The IRS reporter must be able to:

– Set coverage priorities, identifying key cases and covering those cases with minimal supervision

– Provide creative analysis of events, illuminating context and big-picture trends

– Provide commentary that relies on exclusive sourcing or insight

– Discuss legal strategies in the context of precedent and politics

– Offer predictive insight into regulatory risk

– Collaborate with other reporters to share expertise

Requirements:

-IRS:WATCH reporters have advanced degrees in journalism or law, and/or significant experience with the agency or with tax issues.

Please send resumes to Tony Cooke, Managing Editor, MLex North America, at cooke@mlex.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.