Royal Gazette in Bermuda seeks assistant business editor

The Royal Gazette in Hamilton, Bermuda, is looking to fill the position of Assistant Business Editor.

The successful applicant will have a minimum of ten years’ experience as a journalist, with at least three of those years in a copy-editing role. As Assistant Business Editor you will support the Business Editor to administer, plan and produce various publications, as well as supervise staff.

The successful person will possess the ability to:

Shift gears seamlessly between breaking news and the news diary

Create and co-ordinate content for all media channels, including but not limited to print, web, the tablet and social media

Edit copy and lay out pages

Exercise good judgment over the use and relevance of overseas news

Produce the stocks page in conjunction with and in the absence of the Business Editor

Work unsocial hours, including weekends and public holidays

Show proficiency in an array of publishing tools, significantly InDesign

To apply, send clips, a resume and a cover letter to hr@royalgazette.com. The deadline to apply is Sept. 18, 2017.

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.