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WSJ seeks national housing reporter

The global real estate bureau of The Wall Street Journal is seeking a reporter with a track record for breaking news and conceptualizing big picture stories to cover the housing market.

The ideal candidate for the job is someone who can spot trends early and quickly turn over stories that are compelling and memorable.

This is a high profile and fast moving beat that touches many topics, including the economy, demographics, the growth of foreign money and investors in real estate, the lingering fallout from the foreclosure crisis, suburban vs. urban development and property-tax trends.

The beat also involves mining economic data to find stories that explain how housing trends are helping or hindering the broader U.S. economic recovery. The reporter will be expected to work closely with other beat reporters covering federal and local housing policy and home-builders.

Candidates should have at least five years of reporting experience.

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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