The National is looking for a staff writer to help fill its broadsheet in Abu Dhabi. The journalist will be the lead reporter of the paper’s Personal Finance section, writing a diverse range of general finance stories, investigative pieces, columns and online content.Applicants should have experience in covering personal finance. Candidates should also be familiar [...]
With wildfires searing one coast and tropical storms tossing lightening and hail on the other, insurance company executives must be watching The Weather Channel with the remote in one hand and a box of tissues in the other. Not a bad time for us to take a look at the insurance industry, which will be [...]
National Public Radio‘s Planet Money is looking for a supervising editor in New York.The editor will conduct all planning and production for the Planet Money series. The editor will supervise staff, plan and monitor the unit’s budget and coordinate with other NPR divisions. Candidates should have: A bachelor’s degree or a similar combination of experience [...]
Poynter’s Romenesko points out a good read out of Harrisonburg, Va., today. Colleges are hiring official sports writers. Dustin Dopirak writes about how more newspaper sports reporters are jumping to college athletic departments. “We wanted to create a position that informed our fans directly,” said U.Va. executive associate athletic director Jon Oliver. Now, that sounds [...]
Publishing and media firm The LTV Group in Dallas, Texas is looking for an associate editor.The editor will help research, write and edit content for LTV’s magazine The REO Insider. The selected applicant will coordinate with writers and freelancers, participate in magazine planning sessions and represent the organization at industry functions and shows.Candidates should have [...]
Labor Day is a week away, and with jobs – or the lack thereof – as the topic of the year, you’ve barely time to plan and execute a compelling labor package for next weekend. The fates – and the feds – are cooperating, with the monthly spate of employment reports due out later this [...]
Chris Roush reports that the “entire business news staff at The Journal News in Westchester County, New York, a Gannett newspaper, is gone this week in the round of 50 cutbacks at the paper.” Westchester Biz News Staff Gone Since Gannett Blog closed down in July, there’s no quick way to find comments from the [...]
Brigid Schulte of The Washington Post found a different take on the recession: people selling burial plots. “A friend sent me an e-mail clip of a story of people selling all sorts of things from a Las Vegas paper, including cemetery plots, to make ends meet in the recession, and I began to wonder if [...]
