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Triad Business Journal seeks editor in chief

The Editor in Chief, as the highest ranking newsroom leader, is responsible for product quality and strategy across all platforms, recruiting and developing top-notch talent and building audience at the Triad Business Journal.

The EIC must be equally at home in print and digital, but leadership and innovation must be particularly pronounced on digital platforms. To be successful, the EIC must have well-honed news instincts, a burning curiosity about business and people, a deft editing hand and be equal parts leader, entrepreneur, recruiter and content marketer.

DUTIES:
• Define a clear and compelling vision for the voice, look and feel of the Business Journal’s portfolio of products, including the print edition, daily emails, digital content and social media strategy.
• Lead development of excellent content on all platforms, guiding content strategy, working directly with reporters where appropriate, coaching editors to work effectively and collaboratively with reporters and setting priorities for newsroom resources.
• Take a proactive, hands-on approach in recruiting, leading and developing other editors and reporters.
• Lead and push staff adaptation to new mediums, platforms, skill sets, story forms, and ways of doing things.
• Share responsibility for growing print, digital and event audiences. Work with other department heads to create business and marketing plans.
• In collaboration with the Publisher, identify and address new business and audience opportunities to extend the brand.
• Meet or exceed goals relating to audience engagement.
• Embrace community and business outreach as an ambassador of Triad Business Journal, and face of the newsroom, in the region.

SKILLS:
Inspiring and diplomatic.
Innovative, curious, collaborative.
Passionate and knowledgeable about businesses topics and coverage.
Able to lead a high-performance newsroom driven by excellence.
Able to define your own success by the success of your people.
Good communicator who can build on a strong newsroom culture.
Good recruiter who has a bench of qualified candidates at all times.
Comfortable (thrives) in a rapidly changing and uncharted media environment.
Innovator who constantly brings new ideas to help grow Triad Business Journal.

EXPERIENCE:
Management and/or team leadership required.
Experience running a multiplatform news operation key.
Beat reporting experience required.

EDUCATION:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

TO APPLY:
Send a resume and snappy cover letter to Beth Hunt, director of editorial recruiting and development, American City Business Journals: bzhunt@bizjournals.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.

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