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Slate seeking tech/biz editor

Slate is looking for an editor to marshal our technology and business coverage. Ideal candidates will be smart, funny, and energetic; have excellent news sense and good judgment; write sparkling copy and headlines; and be deft, sensitive editors.

Experience on the tech and business beats is preferred but not required—Slate is a place for omnivores.

Experience working online strongly preferred. Good humor and menschiness also a big plus. The position is full time, on staff, with benefits, and can be located in New York or Washington, D.C.

Applicants should send a résumé and cover letter to slateeditorjob@gmail.com by Jan. 28.

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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