Posted By Mark Scarp

Education Week

Business Reporter-Editor

Full Time

East Coast (Bethesda, MD)

Application deadline: Open

Would you like the challenge of helping America’s leading news source on K-12 education start a new line of coverage on the fast-growing “education industry”? Education Week is looking for an enterprising, business-savvy journalist to cover trends that are changing the education market and even education itself.

You’ll follow the flow of investment, the launch of new ventures, reconfigurations of established companies, the role of public and private nonprofits, and other players seeking to redesign schooling at a time of remarkable ferment in this vitally important sector of society. You’ll report for Education Week, in print and online, and join in the startup of new, primarily digital journalistic and informational products. Depending on your skills and experience, the job also offers the chance to edit and manage this channel of coverage, working with the senior Education Week team, freelance contributors, and additional new hires.

Qualifications: We’re looking for someone who is knowledgeable about business, finance, and markets and enthusiastic about applying that knowledge to the K-12 arena. The job also calls for a good grasp of the forces, such as the rise of digital technology, that are causing change and driving innovation in the 21st century. We require excellent reporting and writing skills and facility with blogging and social media. Experience covering education is a plus but is not required.

Salary is commensurate with experience and comes with a competitive benefits package.

About Education Week: Published by the forward-thinking nonprofit corporation Editorial Projects in Education, Education Week spans a variety of platforms, including a print edition, a well-established online presence at edweek.org  (with more than 1 million registrants and about 500,000 unique visitors a month), daily and twice-monthly e-newsletters, influential special reports, live and virtual events, and social media. It offers a congenial workplace in Bethesda, Md., a vibrant suburb just outside Washington, D.C., within walking distance of the Metro subway system and the bike-friendly Capital Crescent Trail.

Send cover letter, resume, and work samples to bizsearch@epe.org, or to Gregory Chronister, Executive Editor, Education Week, 6935 Arlington Rd., Bethesda, MD 20814. EOE

This is anewly created position.
[SABEW Use: Job Posted 11-03-2011]