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ACBJ seeks a managing editor for digital properties

American City Business Journals is looking for a managing editor for our digital properties in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Cleveland. The Managing Editor/Digital Cities plays a key role in our efforts to grow audience in the four noted cities — and could be expected to play a similar, critical role should ACBJ add to The Business Journals’ national footprint.

The Managing Editor/Digital Cities, must live in a market where there is an ACBJ-owned Business Journal. For a list, go to bizjournals.com and click on :Select a City.

Duties
The ME/Digital Cities is responsible for:
• Driving news and business intelligence to our fast-growing audience in these markets;
• Overseeing the smooth flow of content from conception to publishing;
• Working with reporters on story pitches, reporting and writing;
• Reporting and writing their own content to supplement the reporters’ beat-generated work; and
• Serve as back-up to the Editor/Digital Cities when necessary.

Skills
• Strong news judgment and a solid news sense
• An ability to make snap judgments about how best to tell stories
• An aptitude for managing both people and content
• An interest in inspiring, motivating and mentoring reporters
• Sharp editing and headline writing
• Keen organizational skills
• Belief that serving your audience is a newsroom’s chief responsibility
• Exceptional communication skills
• Social media know-how, engagement and enthusiasm
• Willingness to take on new assignments
• A drive to create a collegial, collaborative newsroom culture and vibe — working principally in a remote, virtual setting as dictated by having “newsrooms” in four cities across the country.

Experience
• Beat reporting and/or editing in a vibrant newsroom
• Proven interest in and aptitude for team leadership (even when you’re not officially the leader)
• Ease working in a digital environment and on social media

Education
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

To apply, go here: https://bit.ly/3f7pHf1

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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