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Quad City Times seeks a business reporter

The Quad-City Times/Moline Dispatch-Argus is seeking a smart, savvy reporter to cover businesses, their leaders and workers, and workplace and economic trends.

The Quad-Cities, a cluster of riverfront cities in Iowa and Illinois with a metro area of about 475,000, is home to about 3,000 diverse employers, including the world headquarters of Fortune 500 Deere & Co., media company Lee Enterprises, a U.S. Army base, aerospace company Arconic, and Genesis Health Systems, a top Iowa-based healthcare provider. A number of mid-sized businesses, Mom & Pops, and Black and Hispanic businesses thrive on both sides of the river as well.

The ideal candidate can network and build a beat to find scoops and stories from the business community and the intersection of business and government, including breaking news, daily reporting and enterprise-focused pieces based on trends and analytics. This position is also the lead reporter for Quad-City Times Insight Magazine, a high-gloss quarterly business journal for CEOs.

The best candidates will be proven producers, with previous newsroom experience covering a business-related beat, though candidates with strong clips from other beats will be considered.

We’re a digital-first newsroom in a competitive media market, so live video and digital reporting skills are a must. So are a curious mind, clean writing style and an understanding of economics and commerce.

The Quad-Cities is a fun place to live and work, with many of the amenities of a big city – pro sports, big-name concerts, food and culture – without the traffic and high cost of living.

To apply, go here.

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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