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WSJ seeks private equity reporter

The Wall Street Journal seeks a reporter with a taste for adventure, intellectual curiosity and the guts for reporting on some of Wall Street’s biggest deals and dealmakers.

The post is covering the private equity business – a trillion-dollar asset class still run by a small group of chieftains from New York. This reporter should be comfortable reporting on these firms – be it Blackstone, Carlyle, Apollo, or KKR – as corporations unto themselves.

She or he should also have a nose for breaking deals stories, as well as explaining the economics and dynamics of the private-equity world as it undergoes a big transition.

Above all, this person should be interested in how some of the world’s most sophisticated investors make money, use their influence, and constantly adapt to the market conditions around them.

Applications should include a resume, cover letter and up to five published clips.

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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