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Idaho Business Review seeks reporter

The Idaho Business Review is looking for a driven, capable, competitive business reporter to provide strong stories online and for a weekly newspaper.

The successful candidate will possess the curiosity and confidence to establish excellent relationships with sources in the business community that lead to breaking news and in-depth analysis.

The reporter is expected to plan news coverage in advance, track business developments and update coverage as appropriate. He or she must be comfortable with quick turnaround on breaking stories for the website with writing longer analyses that are of value to the business community.

This reporter will be expected to use networking events, Twitter and other social media.

Email resume and no more than five clips to Anne Wallace Allen, managing editor, at anne.allen@idahobusinessreview.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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