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RichmondBizSense.com seeks web editor

Richmond BizSense, a pioneer in daily online local business news, has an opening for a talented and creative web editor to join our thriving newsroom.

The web editor edits eight to 10 stories each day for accuracy, grammar, AP style and flow and then packages the in our content management system; thinking about how to present each story as sharply as possible.

Required skills & experience

-A competitive drive (we thrive on outworking the local newspaper)

-Ability to multi-task and manage in a fast-paced newsroom

-Curiosity about local business and entrepreneurship

-At least 2 years of full-time copy editing work (collegiate experience may be considered for exceptional candidates)

-Photoshop

-Familiarity with shooting, editing, posting video and slideshows (Or an appetite to learn on your own)

-A love of creating interactive graphics, using Google Maps and other programs.

Responsibilities:

The Web Editor makes sure the stories are as tightly written and as rich with art as possible on a daily deadline. The Web Editor is the keeper of the finished product and should take great pride in presentation of the site each day.

The Web Editor also crafts our daily HTML email blast (14,000 subscribers and counting) as the final task of the day. That requires a mind for catchy, attention grabbing headlines and teaser text to draw readers in.

Hours for this position will generally be 1 p.m. and until 9 p.m., although it will occasionally run later when we land breaking news scoops closer to deadline.

Work environment:

BizSense is one of the most innovative news startups in the country. We have a sister publication in Denver, CO.

We’re energized about our profitable company and enjoy covering a thriving business community. We take special pleasure in scooping the local daily, the Times-Dispatch. And in rebuilding the news business for the 21st Century.

Compensation

Based on experience

To apply, send resume, cover letter and 5 clips that include the raw copy and the edited copy to jobs@richmondbizsense.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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