ACBJ seeks digital producer for national content team

The National Content Team of The Business Journals is looking for a digital producer.

The person hired for this position will engage in news coverage at multiple levels of The Business Journals’ National Content Team. Among those areas are producing national-level news stories, assisting local newsrooms in their coverage, and supporting the operation of our Digital Cities publications in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Duties
• Ensure the national bizjournals.com website reflects the most important business news from our 43 newsrooms across the country
• Create the national American Business Daily newsletter
• Work with the company’s news partners to provide content to local-market newsrooms upon request
• Provide reporting, writing and editing support for the Digital Cities newsrooms in New York, Chicago and L.A.
• Report, write and produce content from a national level to serve the needs of all 43 local-market newsrooms
• Additional news and story assignments as dictated by newsroom needs

Skills
The ideal candidate has:
• A background in reporting, digital media and business journalism.
• A solid understanding of news writing, journalistic ethics and story structure.
• An ability to use a broad set of tools to tell stories and engage the audience.
• A desire to take ownership of and responsibility for various platforms and productions.
• A willingness to be a collaborative team player, able to handle multiple assignments simultaneously.

Experience
1-2 years of reporting; exceptionally strong recent college graduates encouraged to apply

Education
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

To apply, email a resume, cover letter and links to best clips to Beth Hunt, director of editorial recruiting and development, American City Business Journals, bzhunt@bizjournals.com