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Quartz seeks an app writer

Quartz is looking for an experienced journalist to work on the ground-breaking, award-winning Quartz for iPhone app and the Quartz for Android app as a writer and editor. The successful candidate will relish the challenge of covering major global news stories in real time, and writing about them with voice and verve.

This journalist will have stellar news judgement, and superb writing skills. When big, multi-day stories occur—Brexit, or the Summer Olympics, or the Paris attacks—you will decide what story developments should be pushed out to our app readers. The reporter will report, write, and edit original stories, as well as aggregate relevant stories from Quartz and other news outlets.

A key part of this role will be assuming responsibility for our app coverage during US evenings. There will also be scope to report and write stories and analysis for other Quartz platforms. You will be part of a team that’s continually innovating fresh ways to tell stories and connect with readers in the places they most enjoy consuming journalism.

The successful candidate will have:

Several years experience covering news, including major geopolitical and business stories

A proven ability to write with speed, accuracy, and judgment in a complex breaking news situation

A sophisticated sense of the stories Quartz’s business readers are interested in, and where to find them

Facility with multitasking

The ability to inject humor into their work, when appropriate

Across Atlantic Media, generally, the firm looks for two “pillar gifts” in its candidates. In all of us, these are more aspirational than actual, but they are central in our intentions.

1. Force of Intellect – Atlantic Media seeks a discipline and rigor of thought as manifested, often, in exceptional academic performance and, later, success in a professional environment.

2. Spirit of Generosity – Equally, Atlantic Media seeks what we term a spirit of generosity – a natural disposition towards service and selfless conduct.

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.