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Business Insider seeks a Silicon Valley culture reporter

Business Insider is hiring a full-time Silicon Valley culture reporter to tell compelling visual stories for its tech section.

This person would cover all the latest lifestyle, workplace, and cultural trends in tech from Silicon Valley. These trends can include anything from how tech professionals and entrepreneurs spend their money to the latest perks tech giants like Apple and Google are offering to recruit talent.

You’ll also write about prevalent lifestyle trends in the Valley — everything from communal living to intermittent fasting. We’re looking for people to dive deep and spot surfacing trends before they become mainstream. If a prominent CEO, investor, or figure expresses interest in a new product, concept, or idea, you should want to figure out why they’re interested, and be prepared to experience it for yourself (if possible).

This reporter will pitch, shoot, and write their own stories on these topics and be equally adept at sourcing photos from online outlets and going out to shoot their own.

You will write stories like:

The ideal candidate would consider themselves both a photographer and a journalist with excellent news judgement who is curious and passionate about what’s going on in the world of tech. We’re also looking for someone with:
  • Excellent writing skills
  • A passion for telling visual stories
  • Interest in reporting on a variety of topics
  • Experience taking and editing original photos
  • The ability to work at a fast pace as part of a team

This is a full-time position based in our San Francisco office. Business Insider offers competitive compensation packages with full benefits.

Created for the digital generation, Business Insider is the largest business news site in the U.S. and one of the fastest-growing news brands in the world. We embrace the themes of positive change and innovation and use fast, fun, and informative storytelling to cover the business, tech, and finance news stories you need to know to work, play and live better.

If you’re interested, apply here with a resume and cover letter explaining why you want to be our Silicon Valley culture reporter.

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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