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Dow Jones Newswires seeking financial editor

Michelle LaRoche, the editor for training and recruiting at Dow Jones Newswires, sent out the following job request to the staff on Tuesday:

Dow Jones Newswires is seeking an experienced editor to manage a dedicated group of U.S. reporters covering the financial services industry. Candidates should have proven experience in real-time financial journalism, strong writing skills and a keen eye for finding news in the investment banks, commercial banks, insurance, hedge funds and consumer finance industries.
Experience managing a dynamic group of journalists is desirable as is the ability to balance breaking news stories with big-picture thematic pieces. The team writes for Dow Jones Newswires as well as the online and print editions of The Wall Street Journal.
If you’re interested, please contact Linda Fung, managing editor of Newswires U.S. equities news, by email at linda.fung@dowjones.com or Michelle LaRoche, Newswires editor for training and recruiting, michelle.laroche@dowjones.com.

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.