WSJ seeks news editor for Market Talk

The Wall Street Journal seeks a quick, sharp markets writer for its premiere real-time commentary service, Market Talk.

The reporter will need to understand markets, investing strategy and trading, and be able to write quickly on market moving news. The goals are to offer fast, smart analysis and to help readers understand what’s driving stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities.

The position also will involve editing submissions from reporters in other coverage areas. Real-time reporting experience and markets knowledge are mandatory. Reporters should be comfortable taking a point of view and be able to make their arguments quickly and succinctly. The job will be based in New York.

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.