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Colorado Springs Gazette seeks business/news editor

The Colorado Springs Gazette is a daily newspaper and is the premier source of news and information for Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak Region. It has the second largest circulation in Colorado.

The Gazette won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and has multiple digital and print products including a daily newspaper, monthly magazine, niche websites, a mobile app and social media engagement.

We are seeking an energetic and detail-oriented business / local news editor who can work across department and print/digital lines as part of a 5-person editing team. This editor will plan, edit and coordinate our Business content, including evaluating new areas of coverage as well as edit local news, including breaking news online. Weekend and evening work required.

The ideal candidate will have business and news experience and digital sensibilities. Opening to be filled ASAP. Send cover letter, resume and salary requirement to sue.mcmillin@gazette.com with “Business/Local editor” in subject line.

No phone calls 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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