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MLex seeks senior reporter to cover M&A

The senior reporter covering mergers and acquisitions must be a newsroom leader who helps guide all aspects of MLex coverage.

The senior reporter must:

— Establish a reputation — effectively, a brand name — among readers interested in the impact of regulatory decision-making on mergers and acquisitions.

— Identify travel priorities, and work with the managing editor to see to it that limited resources are deployed to greatest effect.

— Target sources for special attention and interaction over lunch or coffee, or at professional conferences or elsewhere.

— 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.

— Work with and assist researchers to ensure that case files are properly maintained.

— Collaborate with other reporters to share expertise.

Requirements:

— MLex senior reporters typically have advanced degrees in journalism or law, or comparable experience. Ten years of journalism experience, including coverage of competition regulation, is preferred.

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.

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