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WSJ Pro Venture Capital seeks a reporter

The Wall Street Journal’s Professional Venture Capital group seeks an enterprising, competitive reporter to cover the venture capital deals and issues affecting the industry. WSJ Pro VC is the venture capital profession’s premier source of news, analysis and data about the startup-financing ecosystem. This is a temporary position.

You will break news regularly on the most exciting startups and investors in sectors where venture capitalists are active. You should be comfortable writing often and for a range of platforms, from newsletters to feature pieces for a monthly magazine.

We’re looking for someone with a minimum of five years of hard-news reporting experience, preferably writing about technology and/or finance. You must be able to produce clean, concise and compelling copy under tight deadline pressure. The position requires the ability to analyze complex business, social, tech and economic issues and make them understandable both to industry insiders and a wide-ranging audience alike. You should also be comfortable mining data to generate stories and data-driven insights.

You will report to the Pro Venture Capital Bureau Chief, Matthew Strozier. This position is remote.

To apply, go here.

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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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