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Jacksonville Business Journal seeks business reporter

The Jacksonville Business Journal is hiring a reporter who can help us cover the growing Northeast Florida economy. The area is home to major financial services and transportation companies, cutting-edge health care businesses, a burgeoning technology scene and a growing real estate market.

We’re looking for someone who will source well and quickly, who isn’t afraid of digging into spreadsheets and public records, who can break a story and then turn around and explain what it means and why it matters to our readers.

The ideal candidate will have a love of business reporting, plus a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent. It’d be a huge plus if you have experience covering business, but a good track record on other beats plus an interest in the topic could go far.

The Jacksonville Business Journal is a daily online publication with a weekly print edition. As part of the American Cities Business Journals, we and our 42 sister papers make up the No. 1 source of local business news in the country.

If you’re interested, email JBJ editor-in-chief Timothy Gibbons at tgibbons@bizjournals.com. Include your resume, clips and whatever else you think will demonstrate you have what it takes to help us produce the best local business report in Florida.

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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