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Star Tribune seeks AME for business

The Minneapolis Star Tribune seeks an assistant managing editor of business news to lead a talented team of 20 reporters and editors to produce impactful, engaging journalism in one of the top business markets in the country.

With 17 Fortune 500 companies, the Minneapolis-St. Paul region is home to businesses as diverse as Cargill, United Health, Target, 3M and General Mills.

The business team produces breaking, enterprise and investigative journalism on all platforms, including a 7-day-a-week business section and annual special reports, including the Star Tribune 50, Top Workplaces, Nonprofit 100 and Executive Compensation.

The Editor Is Expected To

The AME/Business will report to the managing editor and work across the newsroom to produce news and enterprise that will make us indispensable for readers on all platforms.

    • Drive impactful journalism every day, from breaking news to insightful beat reporting and investigative and watchdog journalism.
    • Support and lead audience-driven coverage, working with audience, visual and digital partners to create new approaches to coverage and storytelling.
    • Be a champion of ethics, accuracy and diversity.
    • Lead, edit, coach, recruit and develop talent on your team, setting measurable goals and objectives for performance.
    • Work collaboratively as a member of the newsroom leadership team to support company and newsroom goals.

Qualifications

    • Business editing experience, a record of leadership and a commitment to find new ways to drive greater engagement in our community with our journalism.
    • Ability to work independently, strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, excellent employee relations skills, strong results orientation.
    • High energy level, comfortable juggling multiple long-term projects in conjunction with day-to-day work.
    • Bachelor’s degree or higher.

Please upload a resume and letter explaining why you are the best person for the job.

To apply, go here.

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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