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San Jose Mercury News seeks assistant biz editor

The Bay Area News Group, which includes the San Jose Mercury News, the Contra Costa Times and the Oakland Tribune, is looking for a top-notch journalist to work as an assistant business editor.

Our papers cover the Bay Area economy and the Silicon Valley high-technology industry, and we are seeking a high-energy editor with a strong news sense as well as the ability to shape and develop high-end enterprise stories. We have high standards, and you should to. Business experience is a plus, but not required, but previous editing experience is.

Interested? Contact Stephen R. Trousdale, Business Editor, strousdale@mercurynews.com with your resume and references.

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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