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Recode seeks drones, robots reporter

Recode is looking for a staff reporter to cover emerging technology from our office in New York or San Francisco.

Your job will be to focus on topics such as robotics, drones, artificial intelligence, and others (space? bio-hacking?), producing news articles, features, profiles, analysis, charts and other, more creative forms of journalism about business, people, products, markets, impact, and more.

A good candidate will have some experience as a journalist — preferably including digital technology or financial journalism — personal interest in one or more of these topics, and insatiable curiosity about the future.

An ideal candidate will have some experience with engineering, video production, photography, computer science or programming, or science.

Requirements:

  • Some experience in journalism.
  • The ability to deliver clean, accurate copy on deadline.
  • An interest in obsessively covering technology.
  • Attention to detail in writing.
  • The ability to work mostly independently, with support and input from editors and colleagues.
  • A creative, collaborative spirit, comfort trying new ideas, knowing some won’t work.
  • The ability to work from our New York or San Francisco office most days.
  • Some evening and weekend work.

To apply, please submit a resume, cover letter, samples of your work, and a link to an online presence — blog, podcast, Twitter stream, etc. — that you’re proud of.

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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