The Financial Post has an immediate opening for a business reporter. The successful candidate will work with Canada’s best business journalists and editors to help shape FP coverage across all platforms.
Responsibilities will include:
- Creating content based on original reporting for a variety of platforms: desktop, mobile, social and print
- Working collaboratively as part of a team of reporters and editors
- Developing long-form features and investigations with an eye towards how they can be best executed on digital platforms
- Using the Post’s video and radio channels in storytelling
Qualifications
The ideal candidate should have:
- At least 5 years of experience as a journalist covering business in Canada
- The ability to write engaging stories in a clear, compelling manner
- A passion for digging through company reports, regulatory and court filings, analyst notes, the Bloomberg terminal and other sources of information and data to find interesting and original stories about Canadian companies and business leaders that no one else is telling
- A knack for building a network of contacts that can point you to what people are really thinking about, whether it’s on Bay Street, Parliament Hill, downtown Calgary or Main Street
- The ability to tell stories in a variety of formats, including text, video, audio and graphics
Other:
- Journalism degree or diploma
- A track record of journalistic excellence
- Experience in and enthusiasm for production across a variety of platforms and channels
- An intimate knowledge of industry trends, and a high comfort level in all social media platforms
Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to employment equity and an inclusive, barrier-free selection process and work environment. Postmedia Network Inc. encourages applications from women, aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.
Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in all areas of the hiring process. If you require an accommodation during the hiring process, please make your needs known in advance. Accommodation requests will be provided on an individual basis.
Interested applicants should forward a resume and a cover letter – stating you found this job on Jeff Gaulin’s Journalism Job Board and outlining a proposal for how they would cover business in an interesting and surprising way, including at least 5 story ideas, no later than September 19 to:
E-mail: nmacadams@postmedia.com
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.