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Marketwatch.com holding contest to pick its next investment columnist

Marketwatch.com, a financial news site owned by Dow Jones & Co., is currently holding a contest to select its next investing columnist.

Voting is now open for round two, and voting remains open through Nov. 13.

The site says it will announce the six survivors — the three top vote-getters and three chosen by the MarketWatch judges’ panel — who will move on the final round on Nov. 14. MarketWatch’s judges will then choose the contest winner following a third submission of columns and round of voting. There will also be recognition for a people’s choice winner.

The winning columnist, who will be announced on Nov. 28, will have the opportunity to write for MarketWatch on a freelance basis for a selected period of time. The freelance contract is worth up to $15,000.

The column entries have been edited for grammar, punctuation and spelling before being posted, and they were limited to less than 1,000 words. The contestants have also had to disclose whether they were investors in any investments mentioned in their columns.

Dow Jones & Co. employees were not eligible for the contest.

Read the entries 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.