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Sacramento Biz Journal seeks editor in chief

The Sacramento Business Journal, the award-winning business news leader in the Capitol region, is looking for an editor in chief.

The Editor in Chief (EIC), as the highest ranking newsroom leader, is responsible for driving product strategy and quality across all platforms and for relentlessly building audience. The EIC must be equally at home in both the print and digital spheres — but leadership and innovation must be particularly pronounced on digital platforms.

To be successful, the EIC must possess well-honed hard news instincts, have a burning curiosity about business and people, a deft editing hand and be equal parts leader, entrepreneur and marketer.

Duties include:

Define a clear and compelling vision for the look, feel and voice of our portfolio of products, including the existing print newspaper, daily emails, website, and Social.
Drive staff adaptation to new mediums, platforms, skill sets, story forms, and ways of doing things.
Take a proactive, hands-on approach in developing and leading reporting staff.
Share responsibility for growing print, digital and event audiences. Work with other department heads to create business and marketing plans. In collaboration with the Publisher, identify and address new business and audience opportunities to extend the brand.
Seek content syndication channels and partnerships for Business Journal content.
Meet or exceed goals relating to audience-engagement.

Embrace community and business outreach as an ambassador of the Sacramento Business Journal in the Capitol region.

Required skills:

Inspiring, yet diplomatic

Innovative, curious, collaborative

Passionate, knowledgeable about businesses topics and coverage

Ability to lead a high-performance newsroom driven by excellence

Good communicator who can build on a strong newsroom culture

Must be comfortable and thrive in rapidly changing and uncharted media environment

To apply, contact publisher David Lichtman at dlichtman@bizjournals.com or 916-558-7822

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.