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Bloomberg seeks payments reporter

Bloomberg News is seeking an experienced journalist to cover the payments industry as a member of the Finance Team in New York.

The role focuses on some of the world’s biggest companies, including Visa and American Express, and how they’re adapting as technology and finance converge.

In addition to breaking news through deep sourcing and data analysis, the successful candidate will contribute to Bloomberg’s magazines, website, TV, and radio. This reporter also will follow the largest U.S. regional lenders, while helping with finance coverage globally.

Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have at least three years’ experience covering financial or business news, work expertly with words, numbers and people, and thrive in a hyper-competitive, real-time environment in which teamwork and collaboration are a must. The ability to spot trends in payments and banking, and an understanding of how the industry intersects with the geopolitical and economic landscape, are also essential.

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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