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Wall Street Journal looking for new management/careers editor

Kevin Delaney, the managing editor of WSJ.com, sent out the following job announcement to the staff on Monday:

The Wall Street Journal is looking for an editor to lead a reporting team covering news and issues related to management and careers, and to oversee the online presence for this coverage on WSJ.com.

This editor directs our reporting in some of our readers’ core subject areas, including management strategy, executive compensation, business education and tricks for advancing a career. The editor and his/her team of reporters work closely with the Marketplace editors and with the NY corporate bureau and beat reporters around the world to get the inside stories of how companies are managed.

This job includes responsibility for the management and careers pages on WSJ.com. It requires an entrepreneurial mindset regarding the digital opportunities in this coverage area. The management and careers team produces several types of articles and multimedia, including basic news, enterprise, analysis, surveys and service-oriented journalism, for print and online. Some writing may also be required of the editor.

The successful candidate will have a vision for increasing our management and careers readership and building up our web presence. He/she also needs a keen eye for groundbreaking stories, editing experience and strong management skills.

Please contact Nikki Waller or me if you’re interested.

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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