The Orlando Sentinel is looking for a general assignment business reporter with a focus on Central Florida’s fast-growing residential real estate market. The ideal candidate will have excellent reporting skills and a proven ability to use public records and develop sources. The reporter also must be adept in the fast-paced digital world, posting stories as they break and supplementing them as more details emerge.
What you will do:
- Being fast and accurate: Always striving to provide readers with what we know, when we know it. Be transparent about sources of information
- Employing creativity every day to conceive of stories, produce or secure visuals, get sources to cooperate, corroborate facts and present information to readers in the most relevant, interesting way
- Maximizing audience engagement with the site through use of various storytelling formats, including photo galleries, aggregation and a variety of layouts
- Creating news and features content that is strong on grammar, spelling, punctuation, clarity and accuracy
- Working with data and visuals teams, as appropriate, to deepen reporting and produce data-visualization content items
What you will bring:
- Bachelor’s degree
- You must have three years of daily newspaper experience or its equivalent at a digital news operation to be considered
- Knowledge of libel laws and adherence to the Tribune’s and Editorial’s codes of ethics
- Up-to-date skills on various digital platforms and knowledge of Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms with the ability to develop/follow best practices for social
- Basic knowledge of SEO best practices and ability to research SEO and appropriately populate fields and headlines
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