Hartford Biz Journal seeks a web editor

The Hartford Business Journal, an award winning business media organization, is looking for a web editor with a deep journalism background and social media skills.

The web editor will lead HBJ’s online news efforts and products including HBJ Today. The right candidate must be able to meet tight, daily deadlines and long-term story assignments.

Primary responsibilities will be writing, editing, and posting breaking news to the web (HartfordBusiness.com) and handling all of our social media channels.

The position will also provide opportunities writing more in-depth news stories for print but the primary role is digitally focused. You must not only be comfortable using web-based content management and social media platforms, you should excel at it.

The end goal is to deliver high quality, reliable news and information to our readers and increase our web traffic.

We are looking for a self-starter whol plays well with others and isn’t aftrain to put in the extra hours to the the job done.

Job candidate should have a minimum of 1 to 2 years of experience. A business journalism background is a plus. We offer full health, dental and other benefits and a competitive salary.

HBJ is owned by New England Business Media, parent company to New Haven Biz, Worcester Business Journal and MaineBiz. New England Business media isn’t owened by a later media conglomerate. We are locally owned.

We are looking to fill this position quickly, so if you’re interested please send a cover letter and resume to HBJ Editor Greg Bordonaro: gbordonaro@HartfordBusiness.com and HR director Jill Coran at jcoran@nebusinessmedia.com.