Globe and Mail seeks ag and food policy reporter

The Globe and Mail is seeking an agriculture and food policy reporter to join Report on Business.

This beat will focus on explaining an industry that exports billions of dollars worth of food, employs hundreds of thousands of people across the country, and ultimately puts food on Canadians’ tables. It’s an industry that is coming to grips with the effects of climate change and severe weather, the push toward mechanization, and an economic reality that has led to more corporatization, the loss of family farms and growing concerns about food security. Agriculture is also the lifeblood of many communities that are off the regular path for many of our reporters.

The ideal candidate will have a knack for finding compelling people, places and companies that tell a broader story about how we get food in this country.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Frequently pitch compelling story ideas
Develop sources to break news, produce exclusive stories and write vivid profiles and features
Write clearly and on deadline
Work with colleagues across the department and wider newsroom to brainstorm story ideas as well as the best way to tell them

QUALIFICATIONS:

At least five years experience as a reporter in a daily news organization
Solid news judgment
A knack for big-picture thinking with an ability to connect dots to tell a larger story
A portfolio that shows news, enterprise and feature writing

APPLICATION: Please submit a cover letter with your resume.

SALARY: This position is classified as a Reporter in Group C of the Editorial Collective Agreement.

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.