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LA Times seeks assistant business editor

The Los Angeles Times Business section is looking for a high-energy assistant editor to oversee a team of reporters to boost the paper’s business news coverage.

The successful editor must be able to spot stories, elevate ideas, improve copy, juggle priorities and help guide digital and print coverage. Sharp line editing, critical thinking and strong people skills are essential, as is broad knowledge of business.

Please apply to Business Editor Kimi Yoshino at kimi.yoshino@latimes.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.