DC Inno is the local voice of DC’s growing innovation economy and the top source of information on innovation-focused business. We serve DC’s current and future business leaders: the college students, researchers and young entrepreneurs who are here to make discoveries and start companies. Are you ready to build a community through telling stories with words, numbers, images and video? Are you a quick study, who writes with authority and knowledge on a wide variety of complex topics?
As a Staff Writer, you will inform your audience and start conversations by finding the stories that lie behind news events and press releases: The issues, people, organizations and context that are the current of innovation in DC. Our writers are competitive, creative, knowledge-hungry writers, who are passionate about spreading news and ideas, and know how to have fun doing it.
To cover this world successfully at DC Inno, you must be:
- A hard-working producer – You will be writing multiple stories a day, shooting original photos and video and engaging your audience on social media and in the comments section. that are engaging, insightful, accessible and fun.
- Fun – People enjoy being around you. You work well within a team and build relationships in the external community.
- A newshound – You know a good story when you see one. 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 networker who understands how to build connections, and you have a marketer’s knack for reaching and developing that network through multiple channels.
- 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:
- Write stories daily and establish a voice as a leader in DC’s campus innovation community and throughout the city’s innovation economy as a whole.
- 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, as well as 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.
- Anything deemed necessary by national management to grow the local business
To apply, go here.
