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Dallas Business Journal seeks digital producer

The Dallas Business Journal seeks an experienced digital producer to oversee and lead coverage at the premier source for local business news in North Texas.

The digital producer is responsible for day-to-day management of DallasBusinessJournal.com, including directing content, organizing daily email newsletters and deploying news resources across all digital platforms. In addition to being organized, competitive and conceptual, the digital producer must also:

Generate digital content, including breaking news, slideshows and more
Collaborate with our data editor to craft custom databases using DBJ research
Engage existing subscribers and attract potential readers through social media platforms
Track metrics and measure engagement to elevate the quality of our digital content
Serve as a mentor to reporters, steering them toward beat-driven breaking news

As one of the newsroom’s leaders, the digital producer also brings the ability to make snap judgments about the proper treatment of stories. The digital producer will also be expected to execute and revise the strategic plan for DallasBusinessJournal.com as he/she sees fit.

The perfect candidate for this position detests micromanagement. The digital producer embraces the freedom to make decisions rapidly and independently, while fearlessly operating in one of the most competitive business news markets in the nation.

We use an in-house CMS (similar to WordPress) that interfaces with 43 other American City Business Journals newspapers and sites. The DBJ, located in Uptown, offers a comprehensive salary and benefits package rarely found in journalism these days.

Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and at least 2 years of experience in a digital news environment. Editing experience, preferably with business news, is also required. Video production is also a plus, but not mandatory.

This isn’t an entry-level position, but recent college graduates with a suitable mix of business news experience demonstrated through select internships (Dow Jones, Bloomberg or major metro daily) are also encouraged to apply.

Please send a resume, cover letter and three examples of your best work to Editor-in-Chief Jeff Schnick at jschnick@bizjournals.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.