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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Chris RoushChris 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.