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Houston Chronicle seeks digital producer for business

The Houston Chronicle, one of the largest newspapers in the United States, is looking for a digital business producer to help maestro our most ambitious work across all of our digital platforms.

Central to this mission is the Chronicle’s FuelFix.com — an award-wining energy industry news site that covers Houston and beyond. Six Chronicle reporters contribute to FuelFix, as well as guess contributors and wire services. Fuel Fix has become a fixture in energy news, averaging about 600,000 unique viewers monthly in 2015, almost double its reach from the previous year. The producer also manages a newsletter and the FuelFix Facebook page.

The digital business producer is first and foremost a journalism position. The successful candidate must have insightful judgment to coordinate and edit daily news coverage, write headlines and engage on social media.

The digital business producer will help create and manage media, including videos and photos, and pitch in to write breaking news and analysis. The producer will work with the rest of the Chronicle’s digital team to produce web packages and other digital products featured on Chron.com, our free site, and HoustonChronicle.com, our site for subscribers. Organizational skills and initiative are critical in this role.

Greater Houston provides the ideal setting for business journalists – a diverse, international metropolitan area anchored by some of the world’s largest energy companies, celebrated health institutions, a strong aerospace presence (NASA), fast-growing technology sector and the nation’s second-largest port.

We’re looking for candidates who have experience in business journalism as well as digital work – editing, writing and curating news. This is a demanding position that requires an experienced hand – no rookies, please.

Contact:
Todd Stone
Deputy Managing Editor for Business and Sports
todd.stone@chron.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.

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