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DC Inno seeks reporter in Washington

July 2, 2015

Posted by Chris Roush

DC Inno is the local voice of DC’s growing innovation economy and the top source of information on innovation-focused business. We serve DC’s current and future business leaders: the college students, researchers and young entrepreneurs who are here to make discoveries and start companies. Are you ready to build a community through telling stories with words, numbers, images and video? Are you a quick study, who writes with authority and knowledge on a wide variety of complex topics?

As a Staff Writer, you will inform your audience and start conversations by finding the stories that lie behind news events and press releases: The issues, people, organizations and context that are the current of innovation in DC. Our writers are competitive, creative, knowledge-hungry writers, who are passionate about spreading news and ideas, and know how to have fun doing it.

To cover this world successfully at DC Inno, you must be:

  • A hard-working producer – You will be writing multiple stories a day, shooting original photos and video and engaging your audience on social media and in the comments section. that are engaging, insightful, accessible and fun.
  • Fun – People enjoy being around you. You work well within a team and build relationships in the external community.
  • A newshound – You know a good story when you see one. You have relationships that others don’t and you get scoops first.
  • Ambitious – We’re growing fast. Our writers do, too.
  • Competitive – You want to win. You understand and can analyze the competitive landscape and apply that information to come out on top.
  • Community builder – You are a networker who understands how to build connections, and you have a marketer’s knack for reaching and developing that network through multiple channels.
  • Entrepreneurial and forward-thinking – You want to be a leader in new media and a driving force of change. You are also passionate about the startup scene and local disruption.
  • Problem Solver – You are able to figure a problem out and get things done.

Responsibilities:

  • Write stories daily and establish a voice as a leader in DC’s campus innovation community and throughout the city’s innovation economy as a whole.
  • Execute and uphold the Streetwise Values & Expectations
  • Become an insider in your beat. Write breaking news and enterprise stories that make your readers feel like insiders.
  • Use traffic metrics, as well as qualitative measures of success, to always be looking at how you can improve.
  • Get out: People on your beat know you as a face, not just a byline.
  • Think visually: Finding and creating great images and videos is part of every writer’s job, here.
  • Distribute: Your work isn’t done when you hit publish. A critical part of your job is getting your story in front of people who are interested.
  • Anything deemed necessary by national management to grow the local business

To apply, go here.

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