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USA Today seeks personal finance/financial markets reporter

USA Today’s Money section is seeking a personal finance and financial markets reporter for its New York bureau. This reporter will cover all aspects of personal finance including retirement, saving, home buying and more. The ideal candidate will be an idea machine who will write enterprise and breaking news stories and video scripts.

This reporter will help cover financial markets including writing market stories. The successful candidate will have experience appearing on live television and radio to discuss financial markets and will be expected to appear on USA TODAY video and on local and national media. This reporter will be called upon to write stories off the personal finance and markets beat and to perform other duties as assigned.

Occasional weekend shifts are 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.