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Dayton Business Journal seeks digital producer

The Dayton Business Journal is hiring a digital producer to help write and prepare content for our Web site. We’re looking for someone who will thrive in our breaking-news culture and who has demonstrated content experience in an online environment.

This person will craft timely and compelling content that drives reader interaction, help drive the DBJ’s social media efforts and extend the Business Journal brand in the digital space. The digital producer is expected to curate, report and write posts as well as produce interactive features, galleries and video. The digital producer will also be a key contributor to our social media feeds and may have some stories for print publications.

This is a part-time position. We’re looking for someone who can be a key contributor in our newsroom for 25 hours a week.

DESIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 2-3 years experience in online news operation
  • Strong headline writing and copy-editing skills
  • Video production experience
  • Familiarity with AP Style
  • SEO experience
  • Demonstrated use of databases to build interactive elements and features
  • Data entry for content management systems
  • Html skills
  • Excel and/or spreadsheet tools and management

To apply, email resume, cover letter with salary requirements and three to five published clips to Editor-in-Chief Don Baker at dbbaker@bizjournals.com. 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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