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Business North Carolina seeks special projects editor

Business North Carolina, named the nation’s best regional business magazine in 2012, seeks an editor to handle ancillary publications, including the annual North Carolina Economic Development Guide, and other special sections and projects, as well as help put out the monthly magazine.

We need someone with strong productions skills, adept at focusing on the smallest detail while seeing the big picture, a creative force who can make special projects measure up to the magazine and the reputation it has won over more than three decades. We want a wordsmith. As the judges, members of the University of Missouri journalism faculty, who awarded BNC the gold prize in the Alliance of Area Business Publications Editorial Excellence Awards noted: “Great writing is its hallmark, the output of skilled reporting and impeccable editing.”

We’re looking for someone with the talent, experience and entrepreneurial drive to develop a division, turning a collection of side projects into a profit center. If this sounds like you, send your resume, samples of your work, reasons why you’re right for the job and salary requirement to Editor in Chief David Kinney at kinney@businessnc.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.

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