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NerdWallet seeks staff writers

NerdWallet has been around since 2009, helping consumers make smart financial decisions. We cover the spectrum of consumer finance — banking, credit cards, education, health care, insurance, investments, mortgages, shopping, travel — you name it. We’re doubling our staff this year.

We’re looking for more fulltine staff writers with at least three years’ experience at midsize and larger daily news outlets, or wire services.

What we offer:

Pay competitive with major news outlets’
100% paid premiums for medical, dental and vision for employee, spouse and kids
401(k) match
Flexible work hours, weekends and all major holidays off
Generous, flexible vacation
Generous allowances for learning and training

Join us, work with a bunch of collegial Nerds and help scale a business that’s rapidly growing. Among our recent hires: a key VP from LinkedIn, a senior editor from CNN, one of the top recruiters in Silicon Valley, and a physician with an MBA — both degrees from Stanford. Our writers and editors come from news outlets such as Bloomberg, CNN.com, ESPN, The Motley Fool and the San Jose Mercury News.

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.