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Baton Rouge Advocate seeks a business reporter

The Advocate – Louisiana’s largest daily newspaper — is looking for an experienced reporter to write for a new email business newsletter for the Acadiana region. The work will be fast-paced and digitally focused, requiring clear writing, the ability to develop sources and a respect for deadlines.

Apply here.

Acadiana Business Writer Editor (Job ID 1130)

Please attach a cover letter and resume.

Deadline to apply: Sunday, July 15, 2018

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.