St. Louis Biz Journal seeks a retail and restaurants reporter

The St. Louis Business Journal is seeking a reporter to cover restaurants, retail and the supply chain.

We want someone eager to tell the stories of St. Louis’ ambitious community of restaurant entrepreneurs and well-known retail companies as they navigate a post-Covid economy.

On the restaurant side, this reporter will cover not only openings and closings, but the strategy behind the risks and investments restaurateurs must make in order to grow their businesses.

On the retail side, they will track St. Louis-based brands such as Energizer, Anheuser-Busch, Purina, Post Holdings, Build-A-Bear and Panera Bread.

In addition, this beat will also explore St. Louis’ position within the global supply chain — its proliferation of warehousing and shipping operations, its abundant transportation infrastructure and efforts to boost the region’s stature as a centrally located transit hub.

The ideal candidate will blend traditional journalism skills — source building, sharp news judgment, interviewing prowess and scoop-driven reporting – with online and social media know-how. Reporters in our newsroom don’t just deliver transactional news. They break hard news that sometimes sources don’t want brought to light, but they don’t burn bridges. Enterprise reporting matters. Tenacity is a must.

Duties
• Report and write short-form and long-form stories for the website and weekly print edition.
• Own the beat, dictating day-to-day coverage and thriving on digging out source-driven exclusives.
• Relentlessly develop sources and manage relationships with high-level executives and other community leaders.
• Scoop competitors on every story of any significance, not only telling them what happened, but why and how.

Skills
• Ability to report and write stories under daily deadline pressure
• Ability to report and write long-form, enterprise stories
• Ability to break news and not only tell readers what happened, but why and what’s next
• Ability to relentlessly develop sources and manage relationships with high-level executives and other community leaders
• Ability to use data to drive reporting and uncover news
• Ability to use public documents to drive reporting and uncover news
• Ability to use social media to inform reporting, find sources and drive conversations
• Strong analytical and investigative skills
• Competitive, collaborative, curious

Experience
• Three years of newsroom experience preferred.
• Track record in the news business of building, maintaining and engaging an audience in print and online

Education
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

To apply, go here: https://bit.ly/3Coysvo