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NY Times seeks a managing editor for Dealbook

The New York Times is seeking a managing editor to steer and grow DealBook, our flagship business newsletter covering finance and policy, from Andrew Ross Sorkin and a large, talented team. The candidate should be an exceptional, ambitious and experienced financial and/or policy journalist with excellent writing, editing and news judgement skills, along with significant experience in digital journalism, including work on newsletters. Candidates must be a highly motivated self-starter with a “partnership-driven” approach; think strategically, and work with team members based in multiple time zones under tight deadlines. Creativity, curiosity, enthusiasm and organizational skills are all prerequisites.

Main responsibilities

  • Oversee daily production of the DealBook newsletter

  • Manage a large, distributed team

  • Coordinate coverage with the broader New York Times newsroom

  • Generate and assign incisive story ideas that make noise

 Skills & experience:

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent experience

  • Significant experience working in a similar level role

  • Proven experience applying sound judgment to the news

  • Communicate professionally and warmly with colleagues from across many departments, newsrooms and timezones

  • Background in covering/editing business, technology, policy and/or politics preferred.

  • Language skills: native-level English, with proficiency in other languages preferred

  • Commitment to The New York Times’s strategy, standards and mission

This role is a full time position based in New York or London. Please attach your CV and cover letter to your application. Any applications submitted without will not be considered.

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.

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