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WSJ looking for editor to oversee online news effort

Wall Street Journal marketplace editor Dennis Berman sent out the following announcement on Tuesday:

The Wall Street Journal is looking for an experienced, confident journalist to helm a new online project that will reshape how the Journal covers business news.

This person will be responsible for a real-time news effort that will “blog the business day,” with an emphasis on the biggest stories of the moment. Each day will be different, meaning this real-time columnist should have a broad range of interests be it technology, consumer brands, air travel, natural resources, health care or the completely serendipitous.

This person should have a love of learning, a hunger for being first, a ready wit, and an ability to write with voice and clarity. A provocateur’s touch is helpful, as is attention to accuracy and fairness.

This post is expected to be a high-profile one, demanding frequent appearances on national media and WSJ’s online video.

The new project will also be a hub for contributions from throughout the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones. This person will help mentor those bureau contributors, working closely with them to keep the Journal up-to-speed with today’s news cycle.

This job will be at the center of the business-news world, helping to evolve new forms of digital journalism at the world’s leading business publication. Those interested should send clips and a resume to Dennis Berman at dennis.berman@wsj.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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