The Daily Business Review focuses its news coverage on the legal and real estate industries. From a base in downtown Miami, the real estate reporter takes an overview of the South Florida market with a focus on transactions, developers, their projects, government review and deals.
The beat offers opportunities to cover conferences and events and fashion unique industry-focused coverage at a five-day-a-week daily.
Responsibilities:
As Daily Business Review real estate reporter, you will:
- Work with the Daily Business Review Managing Editor to determine coverage topics and coordinate assignments
- Cover the South Florida commercial real estate market on a daily basis for a target audience of brokers, developers, other real estate professionals and real estate attorneys
- Produce four special reports each year, a daily high-value transaction capsule, two transaction stories a week focused on dealmakers, one to two daily stories and weekly enterprise
- Closely monitor the transactions, trends, brokers, their firms and market segments from an industry perspective in the office, hotel, retail, residential, industrial and land sectors
- Check online public records in the three South Florida counties for newly filed transactions, mortgages and foreclosures with a focus on notable developers and celebrity buyers and sellers
- Develop and maintain a pool of industry sources and communicate regularly with publicists
- Produce profiles on a rotating basis about notable South Florida attorneys
- Serve as the voice and face of the DBR in South Florida, one of the nation’s most active real estate markets
- Attend and cover industry conferences and events on behalf of the DBR, including panel discussions hosted by industry organizations and ALM-produced conferences
- Develop a working knowledge of public planning and zoning issues and applications to frontload articles focused on the early development pipeline
- Produce podcast ideas, arrange video for enterprise reports and secure industry research for special reports
- Send photo assignments or deliver handout art
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in communications
- Have strong writing skills and demonstrated news judgment
- Entry-level journalism experience or journalism internships
- Familiarity with, at minimum, Adobe InCopy and GSuite applications including Gmail and Google Sheets
- Familiarity with social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others
- Has great interpersonal skills and enjoys working with multiple stakeholders
- Detail- and deadline-oriented and able to work calmly under pressure
- Very well-organized, fast, versatile, self-motivated and a multi-tasker able to handle multiple projects with several moving parts on a daily basis
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