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Reuters.com seeks social media editor

Reuters.com is looking for a journalist with social media savvy and impeccable news judgment to manage its editorial social media distribution and live blogging efforts around breaking news.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in social media and innovative audience development efforts but a traditional sense of news judgment, a strict adherence to Reuters Trust Principles and understanding of global news.

Responsibilities:
– Managing Reuters’ editorial social media accounts, including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Google+
– Working with vendors around live blogging software and other services
– Organize newsroom-wide efforts around live-blogging breaking news and events
– Be a key player in setting and maintaining Reuters’ editorial standards around social media
– Developing specific audience development plans around targeted areas of coverage
– Engaging Reuters editorial staff globally to participate effectively in social media promotion of their stories
– Be a presence in professional organizations

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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