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The Real Deal seeks web producer

The Real Deal, New York City’s first and largest real estate-focused news magazine, is seeking a Web Producer to join our team in Manhattan.

With over 2.4 million visits a month, TheRealDeal.com is the go-to news source for the city’s top real estate, finance and investment professionals. Our coverage includes breaking news, investigative stories, market reports and longform narrative profiles.

Our work is regularly cited by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NBC New York and a host of business publications.

The Web Producer will primarily be responsible for aggregating content from other news sites (10-12 items a day), as well as tagging posts, optimizing SEO, adding and touching up images, creating slideshows, and general website maintenance duties.

The ideal candidate is quick, detail-oriented and looking to gain business journalism experience in an award-winning digital media newsroom.

Qualifications
1+ year experience working in online journalism
Experience aggregating news content from a variety of sites
Ability to craft clean copy on short deadlines
Proficiency in Photoshop
Knowledge of SEO best practices
Business journalism experience is a plus
Social media skills (managing a Facebook page, company Twitter account) are a plus

Salary is competitive and is based on experience. Benefits include health insurance, a 401-K plan and the ability to grow within the organization.

Interested applicants should send a resume, cover letter and three clips to Managing Web Editor Hiten Samtani at jobs@therealdeal.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.