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Reading Eagle seeks business reporter

The Reading Eagle, an award-winning, family-owned newspaper,is seeking a reporter with strong writing skills and one to three years of experience to cover the business community in the Reading area. Preference will be given to candidates with a background in business news. Knowledge of the Berks County area is a plus.

The Eagle has a daily circulation of 50,000 and a Sunday circulation of 70,000. Last year we won the sweepstakes award in our division in the Keystones Press Awards.

Send cover letter, resume, references and 4-6 clips by email (MS Word, PDFs or text pasted into document only) to Harry J. Deitz Jr., Editor, Reading Eagle Company, at hdeitz@readingeagle.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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