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International Business Times seeks ME

The International Business Times, an online news publication based in New York, seeks a managing editor to oversee the production of the editorial division, writes executive editor Johnathan Davis.

The managing editor must have strong proofreading skills, outstanding news acumen, a digital media mentality, and drive. IBTimes issues a variety of online content, including IBTimes.com, IBTimes Fx (Forex Trading News), and IBTimesTV.

The managing editor will help the executive editor manage the production of IBTimes’ editorial team. The managing editor will work with the executive editor to guide a team of reporters and editors.

According to Davis, the managing editor must have previous success generating a consistent flow of strong news analysis and feature story ideas, build a stable team of dependable freelancers, organize staff and freelance journalist assignments, write persuasive SMO and SEO-friendly headlines and summaries, produce e-newsletters, and work well under deadline pressure.

The managing editor also must be able to manage the incorporation of videos, graphics, and photos with text and must have been a managing editor or editor-in-chief at a major online news publication.

For more information, contact Davis at j.davis@ibtimes.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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