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San Antonio Express-News seeks retail reporter

The award-winning San Antonio Express-News Business section is seeking a reporter to cover the retail and tourism industries in Southwest Texas – some of San Antonio’s biggest economic drivers.

The ideal candidate will have at least a year of experience reporting on business news for a daily print or digital publication and will be able to turn around clean, quick stories in real time for our digital publications as well as long-form enterprise articles for print.

The beat is a busy one that includes local movie theatres, restaurants and major Texas grocery chains, including H-E-B, Whole Foods, along with Lidl, Aldi, Wal-Mart, Natural Grocers and Amazon in nearby Austin, among others. The reporter will also cover the economic indicators gauging the industry’s health.

The tourism beat includes San Antonio’s major theme parks: SeaWorld San Antonio, Six Flags Fiesta as well as the local hotel industry. It also encompasses all of the financial, regulatory, legal and legislative actions affecting local retailers and tourism, including the Texas bathroom bill, the dark stores litigation and immigration issues.

To apply, email your resume, six best clips and introductory letter to Business Editor Dawn Kopecki at dkopecki@express-news.net.

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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