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Tampa Bay Business Journal seeks a digital producer

The Tampa Bay Business Journal is looking for a Digital Producer.

The person in this position owns and manages TBBJ’s digital content across all platforms, including web, email and social media. The ideal candidate will thrive in a newsroom that values scoops and exclusives above all else and knows its audience and market exceptionally well. The primary goal of the Digital Producer is to craft timely and compelling digital products that drive loyal engagement, grow the audience and extend the Business Journal brand.

In addition to working with staff-generated and user-generated content, the Digital Producer is expected to curate, report and write posts of his or her own daily, as well as produce interactive features, galleries and video to compliment the Business Journal’s strong digital coverage. The end result should be a rich and vibrant digital experience that serves the Business Journal audience.

Duties
• Manage day-to-day digital operation of business journal newsroom
• Curate and update breaking news content
• Report and write original content
• Acts as the newsroom lead in managing and organizing event-related content
• Generate and execute digital content ideas and regular features
• Work with reporters and editors to ensure excellent digital beat coverage
• Produce interactive features, galleries and video
• Manage newsroom social media feeds
• Support reporters’ and editors’ social media efforts

Skills
• Solid news judgment
• Good reporting and writing skills
• Leadership acumen and a desire to work collaboratively
• Familiarity with SEO and site/traffic/engagement metrics
• A keen interest in what’s new and what’s next
• A firm belief in the power of social media
• Able to balance high standards for content quality with ambitious traffic and engagement objectives
• Able to develop relationships and connect with sources
• Demonstrated use of databases to build interactive elements and features
• Comfortable working in a content management system
• Able to understand and interpret site metrics
• Strong headline writing and copy-editing skills
• Multimedia interest and acumen — video and audio, especially — is critical. The ability to create simple infographics a plus
• Knowledge of HTML a plus

Experience
• Digital reporting experience
• Robust social media user
• Business reporting a plus

Education
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

To apply, send a resume, cover letter and three of your best clips to Editor Alexis Muellner, amuellner@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.

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