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Omaha World-Herald seeks business reporter

The World-Herald is looking for a business reporter who can cover a wide-ranging beat with a combination of spot and enterprise stories for our print and online editions.

This beat involves job creation, unemployment, job training and worker safety; telecommunications, tech companies and Data Centers; public transportation, including the entrance of Lyft and Uber to the state; and some food production, mainly the meatpacking industry as it affects consumers.

Companies on this beat include: CenturyLink and Cox, Rural Media; Tyson, Beef Products Inc.; Gallup; local offices of Google, Yahoo, Paypal; Infogroup, Sentry, Ballantyne Strong. You would be working in a nine-reporter business news department.

Requirements: the ability to build sources, stay on top of developing news, be creative in finding enterprise angles and write for a general audience. Familiarity with SEC filings as well as covering private companies would be a plus.

Why you should work for us: The Omaha World-Herald is the flagship paper of Berkshire Hathaway’s national newspaper chain. Omaha is home to five Fortune 500 companies, a diverse economy, an advanced communications infrastructure and a thriving start-up community. Have children? Kiplinger picked Omaha as No. 1 on its list of the Top 10 Great Cities to Raise Your Kids. Forbes ranked Omaha No. 1 of America’s Most Affordable Cities.

To apply: Email cover letter, resume and clips to Business Editor Deb Shanahan, deb.shanahan@owh.com by Oct 5. Please put “Business reporter” in the subject line.

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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