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Greater Baton Rouge Business Report seeks a managing editor

Greater Baton Rouge Business Report—a winner of multiple national awards from the Alliance of Area Business Publishers for investigative reporting, feature writing and design—seeks an experienced managing editor to guide its digital and print publications.

Business Report is the premier business publication for Louisiana’s Capital Region, which includes Baton Rouge and eight surrounding parishes. We are a digital-first newsroom, publishing morning and afternoon editions of Daily Report, an enewsletter packed with original local reporting. We also publish a print edition that, along with the businessreport.com website, provides insightful content on topics and issues that engage the region’s executives, entrepreneurs and professionals.

An ideal candidate should bring a solid background in writing, editing and planning, as well as proven experience coaching, managing and engaging full-time and freelance journalists as well as photographers. An ability to put photography, illustrations and multimedia presentations to interesting use, collaborating with graphic and digital designers in conceptualizing content presentation is necessary. A collaborative spirit and a passion for high standards are musts.

This is a full-time, permanent position. Salary is commensurate with experience.

Interested candidates should email a detailed resume, journalistic work samples and a cover letter expanding on interest in and qualifications for the position to Executive Editor JR Ball at jrball@businessreport.com, or to 9029 Jefferson Hwy., Ste. 300, Baton Rouge, LA 70809.

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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