NY Business Journal seeks a reporter

The New York Business Journal is looking for a reporter who can combine strong traditional journalism skills with online and social media know-how to cover the business community in New York City.

This reporter will help build and cultivate a growing NYBJ audience, offering readers in one of the world’s most-dynamic business communities content that can’t be found elsewhere.

Duties

• Own the beat audience.
• Build a source network relentlessly.
• Develop and produce immediate, daily news stories as well as data-driven reporting, profile pieces, and longer-form, in-depth content — all of which offer business intelligence to our readers.
• Attend industry-related events and help shape NYBJ-branded events.
• Meet or exceed goals related to audience engagement such as page views, unique users, repeat visits, direct traffic, social media followings and growth, email newsletter circulation growth, premium conversions and event attendance.

Skills

• Ability to break news and to identify newsworthy events and sources
• Strong writing, analytical and investigative-interviewing skills
• Solid understanding of news writing, journalistic ethics and story structure
• Ability to relate comfortably to a wide range of people (in-person and online) and to develop sources and an audience
• Ability to work independently under deadline pressure and prioritize tasks appropriately
• Versatile
• Comfortable with constant change
• Competitive, collaborative, curious

Experience

• Minimum of two years of journalism experience with an established record in reporting and writing
• Proven experience building, maintaining and engaging an active audience
• Experience with using social media to source and promote content a plus
• Knowledge of business, and/or business community, a plus

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

To apply, email a résumé, cover letter and links to clips that best show a range of your reporting and writing skills to Ed Stych (Editor, Digital Cities, American City Business Journals) at estych@bizjournals.com

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.