Lead biz health care coverage in St. Louis

Think you've got the experience to spearhead business coverage of a major medical hub in the Midwest? If you answered "yes," this might be the perfect job for you.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is hiring a reporter to lead its business health care coverage. The applicant will "break exclusive news both online and in print, cultivate compelling enterprise, help develop multi-media content and work within a collaborative, team environment with other health and business writers and editors."

This is a beat that stretches beyond typical hospital coverage. The reporter will keep an eye on the area's insurance stories, major health-care related companies and its top medical schools.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch owner reports smaller loss

Lee Enterprises, which owns the St. Louis Post-Dispatch among other papers, reported results for its second fiscal quarter Thursday.
The company posted a loss, but still fared better than it did in the previous quarter, according to the Associated Press via Yahoo! Finance.

The Davenport-based company lost $51.8 million, or $1.16 per share, in the quarter that ended March 29, compared with a loss of $713 million, or $15.90 per share. Excluding one-time costs, its loss was 7 cents per share.

Advertising sales were down 24 percent, with individual categories falling anywhere from 19 percent (retail ads) to 33 percent (classified).
In line with a common trend this quarter, the company showed losses in online advertising of 27 percent. Several other companies have shown similar losses online, where they had been experiencing solid growth for several years.
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