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Dallas Business Journal seeks managing editor

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

At the DBJ, the managing editor is charged with providing inspiration and constant guidance to the content team. Reporting directly to the editor-in-chief, the managing editor oversees and directs the deployment of reporting resources across multiple platforms, including online, email, print and social.

The managing editor, as one of the top communicators in the newsroom, is highly influential in setting standards, mood, expectations and a culture. In addition to possessing a gift for organization that always seeks efficient use of newsroom resources, the managing editor must:

Have an exhaustive understanding of business and financial concepts
Serve as a reliable mentor and hands-on coach of reporters, consistently steering them toward beat-driven breaking news and exclusives
Possess the ability to make snap judgments about the proper treatment of stories, while also adding context, perspective and voice
Conceive strategies that help increase audience-engagement such as page views, unique users, social media followings, email newsletter circulation growth, event attendance and more
Be fearless about operating in one of the most competitive business news markets in the nation

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum of 3 to 5 years of management and/or team leadership experience
Beat reporting experience or equivalent business editing experience
Comfortable operating in rapidly changing media environment
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

HOW TO APPLY

Email a resume, along with a one-page cover letter that describes your organizational strength as a project manager, citing at least two specific cases. Additionally, send three examples of stories that benefited from your guidance as an editor and explain how you directed the reporter through the process. Materials should be sent 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.