Full-Time

Dallas Morning News seeks a real estate reporter

The Dallas Morning News is searching for a high-energy, scoop-oriented reporter to cover residential real estate in one of the nation’s fastest-growing metropolitan markets.

How will you know if this beat is for you?

You’re the right fit if you can’t consume enough news about today’s volatile housing and rental markets and the demographic shifts that result from where people buy homes or rent apartments. And you’re adept at data, with an ability to suss out emerging trends on affordability and sprawl and how that influences where and why people choose to live where they do.

You’re suited for this job if you’re excited about the prospect of reporting on the nation’s largest homebuilder, the nation’s largest supplier to the homebuilding industry and the biggest and most active real estate firms shaping our communities for years to come.

You’re perfect for this beat if you’re off the charts in the following ways:

  • Your sense of urgency and innovation is perpetually set on hyperdrive.

  • You possess an appreciation for nurturing the daily reading habits of a highly engaged audience that visits our website on a regular basis.

  • You’re skilled at quickly turning smart and topical stories.

  • You have the range to go deep on medium- and long-term enterprise while balancing the daily demands of a 24/7 website.

  • You’ve proven your skill in building a strong source network that’s a must for delivering the exclusives and connect-the-dots stories that our digital audience expects of us.

  • And you like engaging with our community, on social media and other platforms.

In this role, you’ll find yourself writing about community flareups over land use, the sale of iconic Texas ranches and mansions, the pandemic’s effects on renters and evictions, the fascinating personalities of buyers, builders and brokers, the large national trends playing out locally and the northward push of development in a metro market that now totals 8 million people — the fourth largest in the country.

Real estate coverage perennially leads our newsroom in digital subscriptions, giving your work the attention and audience it deserves.

Previous real estate or business reporting experience is required.

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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