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WSJ seeks a personal tech columnist

Are you a journalist obsessed with how technology serves—and disturbs—your life? Are you open-minded and curious, yet skeptical and protective of your time, money and privacy? And can you write and talk about products and services in ways that engage people and help them make smart choices?

The Wall Street Journal’s Personal Tech team is seeking a columnist who is deeply knowledgeable and thoughtful about today’s most vital tech topics–from smartphones and social networks to security and privacy—and can translate those insights into written articles and other pieces that delight and serve readers.

The right candidate will have experience covering tech and a keen sense of what is genuinely useful innovation and what’s just hype. Whether through text, video, audio or live presentations, we’ll count on you to be creative in guiding our readers through this often bewildering landscape, helping them get the most out of technology while protecting themselves from its ill effects.

We are looking for the person who will stand out and help us expand our robust Personal Tech franchise.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

  • Write a weekly column on a range of Personal Technology topics, including product reviews, how-to tutorials and other service-y smart takes. Explain complicated and often frustrating tech topics in a way that is authoritative, engaging and easy to understand.
  • Conceive and appear in regular videos accompanying columns, as well as news-based videos and podcasts.
  • Work closely with the Personal Tech editor and other colleagues in the group to develop new projects and methods to tell stories and reach audiences, using audio, graphics and animation, and emerging technologies such as augmented reality.
  • Keep up with the complex security and privacy issues that are becoming core to digital life.
  • Discover promising yet unsung products and technologies, particularly ones that represent emerging trends.
  • Participate in WSJ tech conferences.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

The preferred candidate will have at least five years of experience covering technology, and examples of writing and video that demonstrate a strong and distinctive voice as well as deep knowledge of products and services.

The job can be based in San Francisco or elsewhere, for the right candidate.

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.

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