Full-Time

Orlando Sentinel seeks a business reporter

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

To apply, to 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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