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Pensions & Investments seeks web producer

Pensions & Investments is seeking a web producer. This is an ideal job for a digitally savvy journalist who has strong news judgment, video editing skills and a knack for optimizing editorial content for the web.

A successful candidate will thrive on working with editors and reporters to produce videos, interactive graphics and other digital content to support our editorial mission. In general, the candidate will explore new ways to expand our audience and engage our readers.

Daily duties include monitoring social media for breaking news, posting and promoting Pensions & Investments’ content on pionline.com.

The Web Producer will work closely with editors and reporters on interactive graphics that can stand alone or accompany articles and special sections. The applicant should be detail-oriented, able to work on tight deadlines and a quick learner.

Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree and one year experience working in digital journalism
• Proven ability to write headlines for social media and SEO
• Strong news judgment
• Ability to quickly understand new technologies
• Knowledge of video and audio editing, including the Adobe suite and Final Cut software

Strongly preferred
• Knowledge of business, investment or financial markets journalism
• Experience working in content management systems
• Basic understanding of PHP and JavaScript
• Fluent in CSS and HTML

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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