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WSJ seeks two spot news reporters in New York

The Wall Street Journal is looking to create a team of two spot news reporters in New York. The job requires news chops as well as enterprise thinking. The reporters need to identify important stories from around the country, as well as ones that resonate with readers because they are just irresistible to read.

Reporters should be very digitally-minded and smart in thinking about how to ride a news story online.

We see these positions as a chance to develop reporters. There will be opportunity to build out a story into longer narratives and travel to report them out. What starts as a breaking news story on a crime could turn into a fascinating, true-crime narrative tale, for example.

As part of the U.S. news team, these reporters can also expect to parachute in on big breaking news stories of the day, from hurricanes, shootings, floods and whatever else develops in this vast and fascinating country.

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.