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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Business journalists win APME awards

Business journalists took some of the top awards for the Associated Press Managing Editors Association 2009 Journalism Excellence Awards.
The Seattle Times' "Culture of Resistance", a piece the Reynolds Center interviewed business journalist Michael J. Berens about in June, received a Public Service Award from the APME. Berens and other Seattle Times staff exposed lacking infection control in Washington hospitals.
The Lexington Herald-Leader also won in the 40,000 to 150,000-circulation category for investigating how the Blue Grass Airport, the public library, the Kentucky League of Cities and the Kentucky Association of Counties were spending tax money. Make it Great blogger Rosland Gammon interviewed Sharon Walsh (the enterprise/projects editor heading the project) about the investigative process in July.
Winnners were selected in July at a meeting of APME's association's board of directors. The awards will be distributed during APME's annual conference Oct. 28-30 in St. Louis.

Read more about the winners here.

To learn more about APME's awards, visit its awards page.

IMAGE CREDIT: APME.COM