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KC Biz Journal seeks health care/tech reporter

The Kansas City Business Journal is looking for a journalist who is fascinated by what will happen, not merely what has happened.

Our health care/big tech beat combines coverage of the changing face of how heath care is delivered, organized and paid for with coverage of three forward-looking area public companies: Sprint, Cerner and Garmin.

Tackle such topics as the role of big data in health care, how Sprint will keep up with larger rivals and the nation’s insatiable thirst for mobile data, why big-money investors are buying physician practices and more.

Chronicle how local research becomes the latest treatments for people and animals — and what it all means for the Kansas City-area economy.

Duties

Develop and maintain source networks that allow you to beat local and national competition on original stories. Report breaking news through social media and online stories, then put the news in context through follow-up stories and long-form packages. The Business Journal keeps a tight focus on local business news and a strong emphasis on original stories (not press release rewrites or localizations of national pieces).

Skills

Our reporters must:

– Be able to develop a source network

– Be able to report the news through a variety of media

– Have a strong working knowledge of SEC documents

– Be able to generate stories independently, but also be able to work collaboratively on larger projects

To apply, send clips, a resume and a cover letter to editor Brian Kaberline at bkaberline@bizjournals.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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