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WSJ seeking senior special writer for corporate news

The Wall Street Journal is looking for an experienced investigative journalist to do deeply reported stories about American companies. The ideal candidate will be extremely comfortable with the full range of company filings and have a demonstrated facility in finding and analyzing data.

The job involves unearthing and reporting out the clues hiding in the thousands of pages of typical companies’ securities filings, as well as turning up newsworthy patterns in cleverly assembled data sets. Our interests for this job include taxes, regulations and compensation, but aren’t limited to those areas, and the successful candidate will be encouraged to identify areas of their own to investigate.

The job is based in New York, but alternative locations wouldn’t be ruled out.

Please attach a resume, cover letter and three to five published clips to your online application.

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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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