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WSJ seeks reporter in Brazil

The Wall Street Journal is looking for talented reporters for Brazil. Brazil is an important emerging market with 200 million people, annual GDP on a par with the UK and a global leadership position in commodities ranging from soy to oil to steel.

Brazil will be in the global spotlight thanks to the upcoming World Cup. Rio is also hosting the 2016 Olympics. Talk about your good timing and fun jobs. This continent-sized country features big global companies like meat producer JBS and airplane maker Embraer, sophisticated capital markets and a thriving entrepreneurial culture that makes it more similar to the U.S. than the rest of Latin America. The country is also a trendsetter in the areas of art, fashion, architecture and cuisine, and produces some of the world’s best futebolistas. Brazil has big problems too, like a massive government bureaucracy, entrenched corruption, inadequate infrastructure and widespread violent crime. The recent protest movement in Brazil underscored how the country’s growing middle class wants more from an ossified political class.

Successful candidates should be energetic and dynamic, and have experience with real-time journalism that values scoops and smart analysis of breaking events for digital platforms. They should also know how to write a good profile, and bring an ability to connect the dots between events in Brazil and the wider world. Portuguese is a plus, but we will also consider anyone who has a background in any Romance language. The positions will be based in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Please attach a resume, cover letter and three to five published clips to your online application.

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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