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Westchester County Biz Journal seeks reporter

The Westchester County Business Journal, a weekly newspaper and daily online business news publication, seeks an experienced, inquisitive, versatile reporter for its wide-ranging coverage of Westchester County’s business, not-for-profit and government sectors.

Journalists with a minimum 2 to 3 years of work experience at a news publication are preferred. Recent college and journalism school graduates who have worked on student publications and can show strong writing samples will be considered.

The full-time position requires use of a camera to accompany reporting and an ability to work under deadline pressure in a demanding newsroom environment.

Founded in 1968, the Westchester County Business Journal is a publication of Westfair Communications Inc. in White Plains. The company also publishes the weekly Fairfield County Business Journal and WAG magazine.

Applicants should send a cover letter, resume and at least three writing samples to John Golden, Westchester Bureau Chief, at jgolden@westfairinc.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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