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WSJ looking for Mexico City reporter

The Wall Street Journal is looking for a new reporter in its Mexico City bureau.

Here is the announcement:

The Mexico City bureau of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires is looking for an energetic, enterprising and intelligent journalist who can break news and help cover one of the world´s biggest emerging market economies.

The ideal candidate should have at least eight years of professional experience in a major news organization and should be able to deliver fast and smart coverage for our real-time news operation, the ability to pull off deep-dive stories that explain Mexico´s social and political dynamics for The Wall Street Journal, write blog posts, and even shoot videos for WSJ.com.

The successful candidate should be a team player in a dynamic 10-person newsroom. The post demands a reporter with the ability to build sources, an appetite for breaking news, and versatility to cover complex themes for multiple content platforms, including corporate news, economic policy, politics and cross border issues affecting Mexico and the US.

Fluency in Spanish and English is essential.

Get in touch by email with Santiago Pérez (Santiago.perez@dowjones.com) and David Luhnow (david.luhnow@wsj.com) if you’re interested.

Santiago Perez
Editor, Mexico City
David Luhnow
Bureau Chief, Mexico City

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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