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Nashville Business Journal seeks health care reporter

The Nashville Business Journal is seeking talented, aggressive and curious applicants for a critical role: the opportunity to cover the single-most important industry in a major metropolitan city experiencing unprecedented growth.

You may know Nashville as Music City USA, and while our music industry and brand have certainly helped drive our record tourism growth, it’s health care that makes the city hum. Nashville is home to the country’s two largest for-profit hospital companies — HCA and Community Health Systems — and a whole ecosystem of companies that strive to do business with them.

Nashville has long been the dominant player in the hospital sector, but now finds itself in unusual territory: fighting for its continued supremacy as technology, and therefor technology hot beds, promises to continue its transformation of health care. Given the relationship between the two, this beat also includes Nashville’s nascent technology sector, which gives rise to a steady stream of startups who themselves want to do business with or be bought by HCA.

The nature of the beat means you should never be bored, as you navigate between two connected, but very different, worlds: legacy players and scrappy upstarts, behemoths of industry and would-be disruptors. From the get-go, the expectation (both ours and our readers’) is that you’ll be meeting with the CEOs from both of these worlds, that you’ll be telling the front-page stories that no other newsroom is equipped to do. And you’ll do it in a fast-growing city that is adding new restaurants, concert tour stops and other amenities on a daily basis. It’ll be fun.

If you’re a talented reporter — one who knows how to source, but wants to be better; who knows how to write, but wants to be better — send your resume and cover letter to editor Lori Becker at lbecker@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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