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Beaver County Times seeks business/energy reporter

The Beaver County Times seeks an energy/business reporter who will take our community to another level in understanding the fast-changing world around them, particularly in this region. Experience or knowledge reporting on the oil/gas industry is a plus, as is business-reporting experience.

Good critical-thinking and people skills are a must. This person will think digital-first but also know our print readers will gain knowledge in different ways.

Two years’-plus daily newspaper experience is preferred. The Times (circ. 35,000 Sunday, 28,000 daily; about 1.5 million web hits monthly) is about 35 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh, 20 minutes from Pittsburgh International Airport in the rolling hills of southwestern Pennsylvania and has a long tradition of quality, community-focused journalism.

Electronic resumes and work samples to Executive Editor Shane Fitzgerald at SFitzgerald@timesonline.com. No phone calls for initial contact, please.

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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