DC Inno seeks reporter

DC Inno is looking for a writer who can work his or her way to the center of the District’s ecosystem of people, startups, innovative companies and venture capital firms. Our writers dig up business intelligence, tell entrepreneurs’ stories and distill ideas that change industries.

If you are an ambitious and skilled writer and reporter, the DC Inno staff writer position offers an opportunity to make an outsized impact with a small team and grow with an expanding company. The world of innovation and venture is a broad one: As a writer for DC Inno, you will have a rare degree of freedom to pursue stories on the subjects that interest you most.

To do this job successfully you must:

• Obsess over news: You’ll do what it takes to ensure that when it breaks, you’re among the first to know.
• Connect with people: You’ll find sources who can give you inside information. You’ll seek them out at events and in face-to-face meetings. You’ll check in with them on email and social media. Above all you’ll win their trust.
• Embed yourself: We cover local entrepreneurship better than anyone else, because we are entrepreneurs ourselves.
• Do math: You know how to tell a story with numbers.
• Think in pictures: You’re excited to tell a story with images and video.
• Want results: You hunger for the kind of success that can be measured.
• Solve problems: The media industry is always changing. You’re ready to put your mind to work breaking new ground.
• Plan ahead: You’re not just reacting to the news, you’re shaping it by working ahead on stories that will lead the conversation about innovation in your city.
• Be prolific: Your flow of observations, ideas and original images is constant; It comes naturally to lead multiple conversations in multiple online communities. Social media is second nature, a part of the process of reporting and creating.
• Be excellent: When people read your stuff they seek out your byline, because they want to read more.
• Be curious: Whatever the topic, you’ll find an interesting angle and learn as much as you can.
• Do your homework: Important people like talking to you, because you ask such good questions.
• Respect yourself, your readers, your sources, your colleagues and your competitors.

WHO WE ARE: Streetwise Media was founded by a group of young tech entrepreneurs, frustrated that they weren’t getting any ink from the established tech press. They started BostInno in 2009 in Boston to cover the fast-growing community of young, first-time entrepreneurs coming out of the college scene there. The company opened DC Inno in 2012 and in the same year was acquired by American City Business Journals, a division of Advance Communications that operates business publications in 43 U.S. markets. Since then, we have opened new publications in Chicago (2014) and Austin, Texas (2015).

Humanity faces daunting problems in the coming decades and we at Streetwise believe the innovative and diverse venture economies that we cover contain crucial human ingredients for solving them: the entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and college students who are making discoveries and starting companies. We aim to grow into new cities in 2017 and to be embedded with those innovators when they start the next big thing.

To realize this vision Streetwise Media must:

• Lead the conversation among innovators in our cities.
• Be daily and essential as a resource to entrepreneurs and investors for news, business intelligence and connections.
• Bring these readers together offline to learn from, inspire and meet each other.
• Provide a meaningful connection into this community for people and companies on the outside, looking in.

We look forward to learning more about how you can contribute to this mission. To apply, please send an application, with resume and clips attached as PDFs, to galen at streetwise-media dot com. Please put “DC Inno Writer” in the subject line.