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Washington Post seeks breaking news tech/business reporter in San Francisco

The Washington Post is seeking a breaking news writer based in our San Francisco office.

This reporter will play a critical role in our strategy for aggressive and insightful coverage of business news. We are looking for a clean writer who has the experience and knowledge to determine what’s compelling about a breaking news story and then write it quickly and clearly. This person will be heavily focused on technology news, but he or she may write about other late-breaking business, economics or markets news when warranted.

Beyond jumping on breaking news, this reporter will also be asked to update a story over the course of the day or turn it into a broader piece, sometimes working with a beat reporter. The breaking-news reporter will likely start in the early afternoon.

This reporter will be part of a significant expansion of our technology team, which will include the hiring of reporters, editors and video journalists in San Francisco, Seattle and our Washington newsroom.

Interested candidates should send a resume, cover letter and three clips to David Cho David.Cho@washpost.com, Zachary Goldfarb Zachary.Goldfarb@washpost.com, Christina Passariello Christina.Passariello@washpost.com, or Tracy Grant Tracy.Grant@washpost.com by Nov. 9.

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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