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Puget Sound Business Journal seeks digital ME

Reporting directly to the editor-in-chief, the digital managing editor is the second highest-ranking employee in the newsroom, behind the editor. Along with the print editor, the digital managing editor actively oversees and directs the deployment of resources across the many publishing platforms.

Duties:

The digital managing editor is expected to curate, report and write posts as well as oversee the production of interactive features, galleries and video.

Skills:

• Leadership ability.
• Generate and execute digital content ideas.
• Track metrics and measure engagement with an eye toward constant improvement.

Contact Rob Smith, editor-in-chief at rsmith@bizjournals.com or 206-876-5500.

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.