The Milwaukee Business Journal is seeking a reporter to cover local business news on multiple platforms including print, digital and social. The reporter will cover the manufacturing, airlines and hotel beats. This person will be one of our main reporters on the Foxconn Technology Group’s $10 billion manufacturing campus that is planned for Racine County.
The best candidates will demonstrate that they can establish themselves as the go-to source of news, data and perspective in their assigned areas of coverage. Reporters are expected to break important hard news online and use print and video to tell the story behind the headlines, providing deeper analysis of newsworthy events.
Whatever the platform, we strive to produce content – original and curated – that is accompanied by perspective and context. A Business Journal reporter is widely recognized as the community’s foremost authority on their assigned beat.
Duties
• Build source network relentlessly.
• Contribute multiple online posts – curated and original – per day, with priority given to scoops.
• Work collaboratively with editors, photographers, designers and others to maximize the impact and accessibility of stories reported.
• Contribute to the weekly print paper, including a candidate for the paper’s weekly “centerpiece” story.
• Develop and curate a reporter page/section spread in the print paper each week comprised of information, highlights and data gathered and reported on throughout the week, then packaged and freshened for the print product.
• Meet or exceed goals relating to audience-engagement.
• Attend both Milwaukee Business Journal and industry related events.
Skills
• Ability to work independently and remotely
• Ability to break news and to identify newsworthy events and sources
• Strong writing, analytical and investigative interviewing skills
• Ability to relate comfortably to a wide range of people, in person and online and to develop sources and an audience
• Competitive, collaborative, curious
• Knowledge of business, and/or business community, a plus
• Fast learner
• Proven experience building, maintaining and engaging an active audience
• Ability to work independently under deadline pressure and prioritize tasks appropriately
• Solid understanding of news writing, journalistic ethics and story structure
• Experience with using social media to source and promote content a plus
• Ability to leverage relationships with sources to deliver content that differentiates the organization from competitors
Experience
Minimum of 2 years of journalism experience with a proven ability in reporting and writing, with an emphasis on getting scoops.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in journalism or related field
To apply, go here.
