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Houston Business Chronicle seeks Morning Edition editor

This part-time editor will create one of Houston Business Journal’s most-popular news products, the Morning Edition email newsletter, which reaches more than 17,000 subscribers daily. This is a combination of sharp local aggregation and astute business news writing. This reporter/editor can move quickly and make immediate decisions based on news value for top executive readers.

This individual will aggregate, as well as write fresh content each day for Morning Edition, edit stories and create the newsletter, which publishes at 8:45 a.m. every weekday. Strong headline writing, sharp news judgement, excellent AP skills and proficient newswriting ability are musts.

This hourly position will work in the HBJ newsroom from approximately 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. daily. Success will be measured in increased reader engagement and product improvement.

Bachelor’s degree and experience in a newsroom are required. Email resume and clips to Candace Beeke at cbeeke@bizjournals.com. No phone calls.

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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