The award-winning business news team at the San Antonio Express-News is looking for a versatile reporter to cover refineries, manufacturing and the burgeoning technology sector in the San Antonio/Austin corridor.
These are big beats filled with national appeal and the potential to do some really high-impact journalism. The ideal candidate will be fast with breaking news, covering a diverse pool of locally based companies that include oil refineries Valero, Tesoro and Pioneer Energy, as well as Rackspace and iHeartMedia. It will also include the local Toyota manufacturing plant
The reporter will have to juggle environmental and labor issues that factor big with our manufacturing and refining sectors as well as trend pieces and cutting-edge developments in the local technology sector, which includes the second-largest tech workforce serving the DoD and intelligence agencies outside of Washington, D.C.
This position is a true multi-media job, producing breaking news and quick interactive material for our free website mySA, high-value digital content for our paid website www.expressnews.com as well as deeply reported stories and analysis for the daily paper.
Candidates must have digital and some long-form and/or feature writing experience.
Email a cover letter resume, and your best 6 clips (along with relevant multimedia links) to Dawn Kopecki, Business Editor: dkopecki@express-news.net.
