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Rochester Biz Journal seeks banking, finance and government reporter

The Rochester Business Journal, a national-award-winning print weekly and online daily (RBJdaily.com), seeks a reporter to cover several key beats including banking/finance and city/county government.

Applicants should have at least two years’ daily newspaper (or comparable) experience; some business-writing experience is preferred. They must be skilled in both breaking news and in-depth reporting. About the Rochester Business Journal: Rochester is a center of high technology and international trade, and the RBJ is considered the leading source of local business news in the market.

The newspaper has an influential, high-end readership (nearly 70 percent are business owners or top executives).

If you want a highly structured, corporate environment, this is not the place for you.

However, if you thrive on challenge and have the kind of experience detailed above, contact us.

Send resume, clips.

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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