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About the Role
We are seeking a talented individual to define the vision for our products, including digital news, a weekly print edition, and daily emails. This role involves reporting and writing both short-form and long-form stories, owning a specific beat, and driving day-to-day coverage with a focus on exclusive, source-driven content. You will be responsible for developing sources and managing relationships with key community leaders, consistently outperforming competitors by providing in-depth analysis beyond just reporting events.
Responsibilities
- Define a clear and compelling vision for the look, feel and voice of our products, including a thriving digital news operation, a printed weekly edition, and daily emails.
- Report and write short-form and long-form stories for the website and weekly print edition.
- Own the beat, dictating day-to-day coverage and thriving on digging out source-driven exclusives.
- Relentlessly develop sources and manage relationships with high-level executives and other community leaders.
- Scoop competitors on every story of any significance, not only telling them what happened, but why and how.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- Desire and ability to break news and to identify newsworthy events and sources
- Strong analytical and investigative-interviewing skills
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
- Ability to relate comfortably to a wide range of people, in person, on the phone and online
- A clear drive to develop sources and build audience
- Solid understanding of news writing, journalistic ethics and story structure.
- Ability to leverage relationships with sources to deliver content that differentiates the organization from competitors.
- Multimedia skills, including video, photos, broadcast, on-camera, helpful.
- Proficient with MS Office Products
- Proficient with Web-Based Communication Platforms (Teams, Zoom, Webex, etc.)
- Familiarity with East Bay business trends is desired, and current East Bay residency is preferred.
- Expect to spend 70% of work week reporting on the ground in the East Bay.
Skills
- News writing
- Journalistic ethics
- Story structure
- Analytical skills
- Investigative interviewing
- Source development
- Audience building
- Multimedia skills (video, photos, broadcast, on-camera)
- MS Office Products
- Web-Based Communication Platforms (Teams, Zoom, Webex, etc.)
Location
- East Bay
Work Type
- Onsite
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience