Albuquerque Business First seeks digital producer

Albuquerque Business First, the award-winning business news leader in central New Mexico, is hiring a digital producer. We’re looking for someone who will thrive in our breaking-news culture and who has demonstrated content programming experience in an online environment.

This person will craft timely and compelling products that drive reader interaction and extend the Business Journal brand in the digital space.

The digital producer is expected to curate, report and write posts as well as produce interactive features, galleries and video. The digital producer will also be a key contributor to our social media feeds. In addition, this person will upload weekly files to bizjournals.com and curate our People on the Move and Calendar sections.

This is a part-time position. We’re looking for someone who can be a key contributor in our newsroom for 20-25 hours a week.

DESIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 2-3 years experience in online news operation
• Strong headline writing and copy-editing skills
• Familiarity with AP Style
• SEO experience
• Video production experience a plus
• Demonstrated use of databases to build interactive elements and features
• Data entry for content management systems
• Html skills
• Excel and/or spreadsheet tools and management

Albuquerque Business First and its 39 sister publications are part of American City Business Journals, the No. 1 source for local business news in the nation. We publish daily online, weekly in print and deliver multiple daily email products, as well as host monthly events attended by hundreds of business executives.

To apply, email resume, cover letter and three to five published clips to Editor-in-Chief Rachel Sams at rsams@bizjournals.com. No phone calls please.