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Reuters seeks Africa bureau chief

Reuters is looking for a top-notch journalist and newsroom leader to run its Africa bureau, overseeing a team of 35 reporters covering dozens of countries in the sub-Saharan region.

The job requires a grasp of the multitude of political, economic and business issues that face Africa for a readership ranging from niche financial traders to large investors and media clients.

The new Africa bureau chief will need to balance the pressure for Reuters to break news and be ultra-competitive on timings for scheduled news with the growing demand from clients for the journalism of ideas, insight and enterprise.

The Johannesburg-based job will require the ability to develop reporters and team leaders and make real progress in securing greater diversity among the senior members of our Africa team.

The successful candidate will lead an enhanced Africa business file to help serve a growing readership of international investors interested in the continent, demonstrate a keen interest in visuals and Reuters TV and maintain Reuters traditional leadership in delivering political, economic and markets news.

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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