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Florida paper seeks real estate reporter

The Naples Daily News is looking for a mobile journalist business reporter with a journalism degree to cover real estate, finance and general business stories on a variety of platforms in one of the most unique and wealthy markets in the nation.

You shoot and edit your own video, live stream on Facebook and Periscope, live Tweet with ease and have great clips from your five-plus years at a daily newspaper. Send us links to stories and videos you’ve published.  A minimum of two years of daily newspaper experience as a reporter is mandatory.

Please post your interest to www.gannett.com/careers (More Jobs) and include story and video links. This position focuses on residential real estate in our coverage area, including trends and forecasts that help homebuyers and sellers set realistic expectations and good decisions in our rapidly growing and affluent market.

Key Activities:

Establishing contacts in real estate community to report with accuracy and insight on the private market.
Balancing the need for immediacy with the need for in-depth analysis and interpretation of data and information, ensuring a mix of daily as well as long-term watchdog reporting.
Making sure that storytelling, reporting, data analysis and other tenets of journalism come together for complete, compelling reports.

Education and Experience:

Typically requires a BS/BA in news/media discipline or equivalent experience.
Generally five-plus years experience in news/media field.
Must exhibit a track record of holding institutions and public figures accountable and explaining their actions in ways that are relevant to readers and connect with their lives.

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris 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.

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