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Puget Sound Business Journal seeks editor in chief

The Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle is seeking an editor in chief to run its award-winning newsroom.

As the highest-ranking newsroom leader, the EIC is responsible for driving product strategy and quality across all platforms and for relentlessly building audience. The EIC must be equally at home in both the print and digital spheres. To be successful, the EIC must possess well-honed hard news instincts, have a burning curiosity about business and people, a deft editing hand and be equal parts leader, entrepreneur and marketer.

Duties

– Define a clear and compelling vision for the look, feel and voice of our portfolio of products, including the existing print newspaper, daily emails, website, and social media, as well as the integration of that content with and from the Business Journal’s robust event programs.

– Drive the staff to generate exclusive scoops with frequency, in-depth reports with superior sourcing and insight, and content on all platforms that helps PSBJ’s high-level audience elevate their businesses and their careers.

– Drive staff adaptation to new mediums, platforms, skill sets, story forms, and ways of doing things.

– Take a proactive, hands-on approach in developing and leading reporting staff.

– Share responsibility for growing print, digital and event audiences. Work with other department heads to create business and marketing plans. In collaboration with the Publisher, identify and address new business and audience opportunities to extend the brand.

– Seek content syndication channels and partnerships for Business Journal content.

– Meet or exceed goals relating to audience-engagement.

– Embrace community and business outreach as an ambassador of the Puget Sound Business Journal throughout the Puget Sound region.

Skills

Inspiring, yet diplomatic

Innovative, curious, collaborative

Passionate, knowledgeable about businesses topics and coverage

Ability to lead a high-performance newsroom driven by excellence

Good communicator who can build on a strong newsroom culture

Must be comfortable and thrive in rapidly changing and uncharted media environment

To apply, contact publisher Emory Thomas at ethomas@bizjournals.com or  206-876-5402

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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