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Birmingham Biz Journal seeks a managing editor

The Birmingham Business Journal is looking for an enterprising, hard-working managing editor.

Duties
The managing editor of a business journal is the newsroom’s chief operating officer, overseeing and ensuring the smooth flow of content from conception to publishing on all platforms. In an innovative, scrappy newsroom like the BBJ’s, the position also includes a fair amount of reporter coaching, content creation, and picking up projects that need picking up. The ideal Birmingham ME is a capable lieutenant, an exceptional journalist and a strong and patient player-coach.

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, editors and other staff members
• Keen organizational skills
• A strong desire for growth and change
• Belief that serving your audience is a newsroom’s chief responsibility
• Exceptional communication skills
• A drive to create a collegial, collaborative newsroom culture and vibe
• Comfort speaking in public, moderating panels and facilitating network opportunities.
• Experience filing Freedom of Information Act requests
• Interest in opinion writing

Experience
• Minimum of 5 years as a beat reporter and/or editor in a vibrant newsroom
• Proven interest in and aptitude for team leadership (even when you’re not officially the leader)
• Hands-on experience in guiding and contributing to large-scale editorial projects
• Ease working in a digital environment and on social media
• Weekly print experience in a business news operation a plus

Education
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

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

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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