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Job changes for business editor

Julia Anderson, the business editor at The Columbian newspaper in Vancouver, Wash., writes Sunday about how her job has changed in the past year.

Anderson wrote, “I’ve been a print newspaper business reporter and editor for a long time, writing stories and assigning photos to appear in the next day’s business section. One deadline came at the end of each 24-hour news cycle. That changed for me this year with the debut of The Columbian’s B2B business news magazine and launch of The Columbian’s BusinessTODAY daily e-newsletter.

“Reporting and producing news is now ongoing minute-to-minute. We put breaking news on our www.columbian.com Web site as soon as we get it. BusinessTODAY offers a free roundup of news and stock prices within minutes of the market close via e-mail to subscribers, Monday through Friday at about 2 o’clock. That’s in addition to meeting the print deadline for the next day’s newspaper’s business section.”

Later, she wrote, “As editor, I coordinate content for all three products. It is exciting to respond to the changing dynamics of the information industry. We see business news as more important than ever and we now have multiple ways to get it to you. I would also add that my job is more fun. No really!”

Read more 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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