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Pacific Coast Business Times seeks tech reporter

The Pacific Coast Business Times, the weekly business media company based in Santa Barbara, Calif., is looking for a staff writer who can cover a broad range of technology companies in three of the nation’s most attractive counties.

You will be covering a range of companies from biotech giant Amgen to startups/early stage companies being spawned at UC Santa Barbara, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and other institutions.

This is a full-time salaried position ($38,000 to $40,000 range) with health benefits.  Candidates should have some experience and a good grounding in finance basics. Enthusiasm and a willingness to adapt to the extremely high cost of housing in our area are a plus.

Send resume and three clips to jobs@pacbiztimes.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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