The Daily looking for biz writers

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE

Tom Lowry, business editor of News Corp.’s table newspaper The Daily, is looking for writers.

Lowry, who started on the job last week, says he is hiring one full-time staff writer and is also looking for freelancers who can contribute on a regular basis. For the full-time position, Lowry wants someone with at least three years covering a business beat.

“I want to build up network of folks who I can rely on for stories,” said Lowry about the freelancers, in an e-mail to Talking Biz News.

The Daily launched on Feb. 2, 2011, with the mission to provide the best news experience by combining world-class storytelling with the unique interactive capabilities of the iPad. The Daily is offered exclusively in Apple’s iPad App Store and is available free for two weeks. It costs 99 cents a week, or $39.99 a year.

An additional full-time staffer for the business section might be added later this year, but no formal decisions have been made, Lowry said.

For immediate consideration for the business reporter position, please send a cover letter (with compensation requirements), resume and five recent clips to newsjobs@thedaily.com. Please reference in the subject line of your email that you are applying for the business reporter position.

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.