NY Times seeks a banking reporter

The New York Times is looking for a highly motivated and energetic reporter to join its finance team.

The ideal candidate would be deeply sourced on Wall Street, or demonstrate a proven ability to build sources on a beat; eager to dominate coverage of the most important, challenging and pressing issues in financial services; embrace both scoops and enterprise reporting; be a willing collaborator and an elegant writer. This reporter would have primary responsibility for coverage of some of the biggest Wall Street banks, including JPMorgan, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.

The reporter’s mandate would involve bringing to life and hold to account the people who work at and run these entities, and through through smart and engaging storytelling explain the ways in which these powerful entities impact society.

This position is represented by the NewsGuild of NY.

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.