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WSJ seeks associate editor in New York

The Wall Street Journal seeks a dynamic associate editor to help oversee markets coverage for online, wires and print.

The ideal candidate will have extensive reporting and editing experience at a national financial news organization or prominent local daily newspaper. The editor will handle all phases of news and production and must be a strong leader, facile manager and hard-headed reader and reporter.

Responsibilities will include helping develop story and graphic ideas for two-dozen-strong markets team, monitoring progress of content as it moves through the editing process and steering copy from raw form to web page or newsprint.

Duties can be demanding but rewards are outsized, shaping coverage of the top financial-news team on the planet.

Resume, clips and any questions to Markets Editor colin.barr@wsj.com or Financial Editor francesco.guerrera@wsj.com.

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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