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MediaNews Group seeks a reporter – Bay Area

The Bay Area News Group is looking for a full-time features reporter. This person will join our Bay Area restaurant and food team, allowing us to dramatically expand our coverage of one of the nation’s most vibrant food scenes into the diverse suburbs of the East and South Bays. This beat includes not only classic restaurant coverage, but food and restaurant business trends and related topics, such as foodie TV, social media food trends, documentaries, festivals and more. If you’re passionate about food, arts, entertainment and love telling stories, this is the job for you!

Responsibilities:

  • Cover the restaurant/dining beat across the Bay Area, from Santa Cruz to Wine Country
  • Discover and report big picture trends in the food/dining industry with a consumer focused approach
  • Write three to five stories a week, a combination of quick-hits and enterprise
  • Write monthly curated, best-of stories that explore restaurant niches
  • Contribute several long-form articles and quick-read features on a wide range of topics for each of the Bay Area News Group’s seven premium magazines each year

Qualifications:

  • 3 years of daily journalism experience, including breaking news experience
  • Strong writing ability, digital fluency and strong skills in communication, organization, problem solving, flexibility and adaptability
  • Demonstrated ability to write sharp, clean copy, including headlines and nut graphs that distill why a story needs to be read and shared online
  • Digital storytelling experience is also critical, and any candidate should have an intense curiosity for how news is consumed, shared and searched for on the internet
  • Comfort working on digital deadlines in a 24/7 news cycle, and the drive to best the competition on a regular basis
  • 4-year college degree (journalism or related fields)

To apply, submit a cover letter, resume and three to five links to stories published in the last year

Salary: The hourly wage is $25.00 – $30.00

For further information click here.

Mariam Ahmed

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