St. Louis Business Journal seeks editor in chief

The St. Louis Business Journal is looking for an energetic editor in chief who has a burning curiosity about business and people who will be relentless about building audience across all platforms. The successful candidate must have great hard news instincts, a deft editing hand and be equal parts leader, entrepreneur and marketer.

Duties

– Create content and product vision. The EIC must define a clear and compelling vision for the look, feel and voice of our portfolio of products, including the existing weekly print newspaper, daily emails and website.

– Change agent. Must drive staff adaptation to new mediums, new platforms, new skill sets, new story forms, new ways of doing things. Persuasively, diplomatically, strategically, the EIC must guide the business journal operation into new markets, new competencies, and new areas of opportunity.

– Newsroom leader. It is paramount that the EIC take a proactive, hands-on approach in developing and leading the reporting staff. Our ability to produce products that connect with our audiences stems directly from the EIC’s interaction with, and direction of, the reporting team.

– Audience. The Office of the Editor and, by extension, the EIC, shares cross-departmental responsibility for growing our print, digital and event audiences. This demands a tight relationship with our audience through blogging and Editor’s Notebooks.

Skills

– Daily, and preferably, weekly print experience for a business news operation

– Experience working in an online news environment

– Beat reporter experience

– Innovative, curious, collaborative

– Eager to connect directly with readers/audience

– Great developer of talent

– Adept at public speaking

– Team player

To apply, contact publisher Patricia Miller at tmiller@bizjournals.com or  314-421-8326