Texas daily seeks a business and agriculture reporter

The Victoria Advocate, a national award-winning family-owned community newspaper, is seeking applications to hire a business/ag reporter to cover the growing business and ag industries in its seven-county coverage area. Victoria is the business center for the region and offers a variety of opportunities for coverage. The ag industry, which spans all seven counties, is a multi-million-dollar industry.

College degree in journalism preferred, writing experience encouraged. Ability to speak Spanish is a plus but not required. Victoria is two hours from Houston, Austin, San Antonio and Corpus Christi and an hour from Gulf Coast beaches.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, accident insurance, 401(k), paid holidays, and a generous paid time off program. Applicants must successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening and background check.

Please send cover letter, resume and clips to managing editor Becky Cooper to bcooper@vicad.com.

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.