At Chicago Inno, we cover local innovation, tech, and disruption across a variety of sectors in an insightful, accessible, edgy, and fun way.
We’re looking for a full-time writer to cover the Chicago education beat for us, which means focusing on EdTech, campus entrepreneurship (college entrepreneurial programs and efforts), student-run startups, university policy, and anything and everything innovative coming out of Chicagoland schools and universities.
We’re the primary source of information for Chicago’s current and future business leaders: the college students, researchers and young entrepreneurs who are here to make discoveries and start companies. Chicago is one of the world’s greatest education hubs with top universities, emerging EdTech startups, and pillar companies influencing the industry. Are you driven, excited, and ready to build an exciting community through content? Are you are able to write with authority and knowledge on a wide variety of complex topics? Are you able to be flexible and occasionally cover innovation happening across other industries?
As a Staff Writer, you will maintain and build community by creating content about critical information in your Beat that will teach your audience and start conversations. Staff writers are competitive, creative, knowledge-hungry writers, who are passionate about spreading news and ideas. And fun!
To cover this world successfully at Chicago Inno, you must be:
- A hard-working content producer – You will be writing multiple stories a day that are engaging, insightful, accessible, and fun.
- Fun – People enjoy being around you. You work well with your team internally and build relationships in the external community.
- A newshound – You follow breaking news obsessively. 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 marketer who understands how to build connections.
- 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:
- Create content daily and establish a voice as a leader in Chicago’s education community and throughout the city’s innovation economy as a whole.
- Anything deemed necessary by national management to grow the local business
- 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 and 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.
To apply, please email your resume and clips/writing samples to streetwisemedia@applications.recruiterbox.com with “Chicago Inno Edu Writer” in the subject line.
