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WSJ seeks municipal finance reporter

The Wall Street Journal seeks a reporter to cover credit-ratings firms and municipal finance.

The reporter will track the research issued by the ratings firms as well as the ongoing litigation related to their performance in the years leading up to the financial crisis. The reporter will also play a key role in the paper’s coverage of municipal finance, an increasingly important national issue in the wake of Detroit’s bankruptcy filing.

The reporter will be expected to break news and generate enterprise features out of a challenging beat that is a critical part of the country’s financial system.

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

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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