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Dallas Biz Journal seeks social engagement manager

The Dallas Business Journal recently unveiled a whole new look, and now it is ready to add a brand-new position to the newsroom: Social Engagement Manager.

In recognition of the direct link between content creators and their audience, the SEM is charged with helping lead efforts to monitor, engage and grow audience on all platforms: online, social, mobile, print, events and more. This is an exciting opportunity to help define a new role for this newsroom and take a leadership position in building the next generation of business journalism.

A strong candidate will have proven experience in running social media campaigns and will crave working collaboratively with all departments to build a business journal following across multiple platforms, increasing audience market share in key vertical industries. Excelling at this job will require creativity, teamwork, resourcefulness, and an insatiable desire to achieve measurable results.

The Dallas Business Journal is an American City Business Journals publication with offices in Dallas’ dynamic Uptown neighborhood. We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Check out our website at dallasbusinessjournal.com. Find out more about our company on the careers page at acbj.com. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

If this sounds like the job for you, send a cover letter and resume to applyDallas@bizjournals.com. Please include the text of your cover letter as the body of your email and include links that showcase your existing social media work. Include your resume as an attachment.

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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