WSJ/Dow Jones seeks spot news reporter in Frankfurt

The Frankfurt Bureau of Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal is looking for a reporter on its Spot News Desk.

This intensely real-time position involves reporting on corporate and general German news. The successful candidate will be a curious journalist who thrives in high-pressure situations, and is a fast, accurate and a strong writer of English.

The position requires familiarity with how corporations report earnings, how economies are measured and how financial markets react to news, while offering opportunities to develop story ideas with editors and colleagues.

German fluency is a requirement for the position, which also involves some translation from German to English.

Please submit your CV and covering letters along with some recent 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.