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WSJ seeks reporter for investigative team

The Wall Street Journal is looking for a reporter to join its investigative team.

This position will focus on breaking news and investigations, including long-term projects with the I-team, with beat reporters in the financial and enterprise groups, and across the newsroom.

The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated history of watchdog journalism of Wall Street, hedge funds, private equity and corporate boardrooms. A history of conceiving and executing investigative work also is required.

This person must be highly sourced in the financial and corporate worlds, skilled at cultivating sources, in accruing and gleaning pertinent information from vast troves of documents, in understanding and using data to bolster his or her reporting and in organizing and writing strong narrative stories efficiently.

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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