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The Wrap seeks a business reporter

TheWrap is seeking a part time business and news writer who can write about financial markets and assist the morning news team with breaking news. You should be well-versed in writing business and financial news, with a specific focus on how it relates to the entertainment and media sectors.

Your copy should be clean, clever and conversational.

Knowledge of AP style and love of a good headline is strongly preferred. The ideal candidate will be highly organized, energetic and capable of multitasking in a real-time news environment. This is a part-time, freelance position.

Required skills:

  • At least 5 years experience writing about business for professional outlets
  • The ability to quickly verify and cover breaking business news
  • Experience reading and reporting on earnings statements
  • The ability to report out stories from scratch, including ideating and source-building
  • Superior news judgment, with a passion for the business of entertainment
  • Proficient and speedy on a CMS such as WordPress
  • Ability to crop photographs
  • SEO and social media savvy

This position pays $30-35/hour, experience dependent, for a minimum of 20 hours per week.

This job may be done remotely.

Please submit resume and clips to: alexei.barrionuevo@thewrap.com and adam.chitwood@thewrap.com

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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