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Wichita Business Journal seeks reporter

The Wichita Business Journal is looking for a savvy, multi-platform journalist who knows how to cultivate sources, break news and produce relevant centerpiece stories with impact that help create and further business community discussion.

Wichita is doing stories with impact, our recent interview with Charles Koch being an example. We’re aiming high and not settling for no.

Duties:

Use our website and social media to scoop the competition. Be a critical thinker. Be hungry to expand your brand and your audience. Be aggressive in cultivating sources. Work in a collaborative newsroom and operating unit.

Skills:

Assertiveness, ability to source using documents, building a source list from personal contacts, desire to keep building a strong portfolio of award-winning work.

Contact Bill Roy, editor, broy@bizjournals.com, or 316-267-6406

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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