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Dow Jones seeking private equity journalist

Nick Elliott, the Dow Jones managing editor overseeing private equity coverage, sent out the following staff announcement on Friday:

Private Equity has come a long way since Barbarians at the Gate was published in 1990, exposing the machinations behind a landmark leveraged buyout. It’s now a much bigger part of the business landscape and has spread across most industries and parts of the world. At Dow Jones we have the leading publications covering the goings-on in private equity, including Private Equity News, an online-and-print product that is the leading source of news for European private equity professionals.

We’re now looking for a London-based reporter/editor to lead news coverage. The weekly magazine, which feeds stories to Financial News, Private Equity Analyst, Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal, requires someone with a strong focus on scoops and a track record of breaking stories in a secretive market. Editing experience is preferable but not essential. The candidate will help manage and edit stories as well as writing news and features. Applications to nick.elliott@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.

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