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Reuters seeks editor for its U.S. website

Reuters is seeking an online editor to work on its main U.S. website.

The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of journalism experience, solid writing and editing skills, a demonstrable bent towards business news and a facility with social media and publishing tools.

A Reuters.com online editor’s responsibilities run from building multimedia modules and enhanced article pages, curating the best content from across the Reuters coverage areas, reacting quickly to breaking news and contributing to live blogging efforts, especially around business and markets news. With a focus on accuracy and fairness, the online editor must write headlines that sing and blurbs which capture the imagination of a truly global audience.

Most importantly, the online editor should be able to work with a close-knit team, communicate effectively across a large editorial organization and bring a can-do energy into the newsroom daily.

Responsibilities:
– Exercise strong news judgment in selection stories to promote across web platforms and across social outlets
– Write and edit headlines and other display text for home pages, articles, push notifications and select social media promotions
– Have an understanding and enthusiasm for business and markets news
– Display literacy in web publishing systems
– Ensure all content that is produced adheres to the Reuters Trust Principles of fair, objective coverage of the news

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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