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Reuters seeks M&A reporter for technology/telecom

Reuters is seeking a reporter focusing on breaking news on mergers and acquisitions with an emphasis on major deals, and investment banking activities in the technology and telecommunications sector.

Specific job duties include:
– Report and break news on various activities of deals and deal makers including large-scale mergers and acquisitions in tech, media, cable & telecom industries.
– Publish accurate, market-moving news alerts faster than the competition and meeting news wire deadlines for writing copy.
– Be able to handle getting market moving information from confidential sources on widely followed and traded companies such as Apple, Google, Verizon and Comcast.
– Report on how political developments will affect mergers and acquisitions including an understanding of the workings of Washington and lobbying around specific issues.
– Analyze deals that have already happened, coordinating with beat reporters to identify those businesses or industries ripest for deal making and tirelessly chasing down any and all leads.
– on industry trends in deal making.
– Follow and compile industry rankings/league tables of investment banks based on fees in the sector.
– including IPOs and secondary offerings.
– Develop sources to follow auction processes in the sale of private companies, spinoffs.
– Understand the regulatory process and U.S. Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission, the bodies that review deals.
– Generate ideas for investigative stories and longer form enterprising pieces that tackle issues relevant to the sector.
– Contribute to the production of financial graphics and multimedia content.
– Appear in videos to talk about mergers and acquisitions in the sector.
– 20% travel required.

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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