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Oregon paper seeks a business editor

The Bulletin, a daily newspaper serving Central Oregon, seeks an editor to manage its business team, which consists of two reporters and a newsroom assistant.  The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate an excellent track record of business reporting and editing at a daily newspaper.

Bend, Central Oregon’s largest city, is a thriving lifestyle destination whose economy has seen rapid growth in a number of areas, including tourism, outdoor recreation, technology, pharmaceuticals, construction, brewing and marijuana. The ideal candidate will be able to work with reporters to provide compelling coverage of these and other areas, collaborate with other editors on visual and graphical components and ensure effective digital presentation. There are opportunities for the business editor to write as well as edit.

The business editor and city desk editors at The Bulletin operate as a team to provide editing coverage during periodic absences and vacations. Participation is a core element of the business editor’s job.

The Bulletin is an independent, family-owned newspaper in Bend, Oregon,  a city of 90,000 on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains. It is an equal opportunity employer. All employment is contingent on passing a drug test.

To apply, send your resume and cover letter to: editor Erik Lukenselukens@bendbulletin.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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