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Contra Costa Times, Oakland Tribune seek business reporter

Bay Area News Group, publisher of the Contra Costa Times, Oakland Tribune and San Jose Mercury News, is looking for an East Bay-focused reporter to cover consumer-oriented retail, small business and development trends for a regional audience, with an emphasis on driving digital traffic.

The reporter will focus on general interest East Bay business and development news, including the expansion and transformation of popular shopping destinations throughout the region, as well as emerging projects and trends.

The reporter will also pursue broader enterprise and issue-oriented coverage focusing on changes and developments in the retail and local business landscape as it pertains to East Bay consumers. The beat may also entail the coverage of other business-related topics from an East Bay perspective.

Alameda and Contra Costa counties include traditional industry, tech startups, big retail and small independent stores and a diverse, well-educated workforce spread out over many diverse cities from Antioch to Pleasanton to Richmond to Oakland, so stories are plentiful.

Interested candidates should email a cover letter, resume and five writing samples to Craig Lazzeretti at clazzeretti@bayareanewsgroup.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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