Baltimore Sun seeks business reporter

The Baltimore Sun is looking for a reporter to fill an opening in Business.

This reporter would be working in a fast-paced newsroom, breaking news online while juggling enterprise and long-term investigations. Candidates should be skilled reporters able to identify and craft good stories and to write accurately under deadline pressure.

We’re also looking for a reporter interested in finding new ways to tell stories to a digital audience, and candidates must be adept at using social media. Daily newspaper reporting experience is preferred.

Interested applicants should email a cover letter, resume and clips to Laura Smitherman, Assistant Managing Editor/Metro at laura.smitherman@baltsun.com.

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.