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Philadelphia Biz Journal seeks a digital editor

The Philadelphia Business Journal is looking for a full-time Digital Editor.

The Digital Editor owns and manages PBJ’s digital content across all platforms, including web, email and social media. The ideal candidate will thrive in a newsroom that values scoops and exclusive reporting above all else, and knows its audience well. The Digital Editor works with reporters, interns and freelancers to develop and edit all online content. He or she also produces compelling digital content — from a breaking business news story to a slideshow, to an interactive data package or a feature-length article — that drives engagement, grows our audience and extends the PBJ brand.

The ideal candidate is a Swiss Army Knife who is comfortable writing on any beat, who barely breaks a sweat while multitasking, can write quickly and concisely and thrives under pressure.

Duties
• Directs PBJ digital coverage all day every day.
• Edits stories produced by staff reporters, interns and freelancers and helps shape beat coverage.
• Takes the lead on breaking news coverage, working in tandem with the rest of the newsroom team to ensure PBJ is ahead of the pack.
• Reports, writes and sometimes aggregates engaging online content throughout the day from a variety of sources, including public company filings.
• Curates, writes for, ranks and publish PBJ’s morning and afternoon email products and breaking news alerts.
• Tracks metrics, measures engagement and helps staff identify and deploy tactics to meet traffic and engagement goals.
• Manages social media streams and executes strategies to build engagement.
• Works with editors, reporters and other stakeholders to plan new content and features for web and print.
• Works collaboratively with peers in photography, design and research

Skills
• Exceptional news judgment
• Strong reporting and writing skills
• Strong editing and headline-writing skills
• Leadership acumen and a desire to work collaboratively
• Familiarity with SEO and site/traffic/engagement metrics, and ability to interpret them
• A firm belief in the power of social media
• Able to balance high standards for content quality with ambitious traffic and engagement objectives
• Demonstrated use of databases to build interactive elements and features a plus
• Comfortable working in a content management system
• Multimedia interest and acumen — video and audio, especially — is key. The ability to create simple infographics a plus
• Knowledge of HTML a plus

Experience
• At least 2 years’ experience in a newsroom
• Digital/online reporting experience
• Robust social media user
• Business reporting a plus

Education
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

To apply, send a resume, cover letter and three of your best clips to Beth Hunt, director of editorial recruiting and development, American City Business Journals
bzhunt@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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