TheStreet.com is looking for a reporter/writer who can identify the biggest trending stories in investments, markets, personal finance and business and consumer news and cover them on a real-time basis.
The ideal candidate will be a business or markets reporter with two to five years or more of experience in a real-time news environment.
The successful candidate will have a wide understanding of pocketbook and investing topics, plus a clear understanding of how every story should be optimized for distribution via the Web, social media, video and newsletters.
Responsibilities:
- Write approximately seven informative, punchy news stories (300-800 words) every day.
- Use solid news judgment and editorial instincts to create stories in TheStreet’s “voice” while also attracting large audiences, particularly on Facebook and via search engines.
- Work with graphic artists to create charts and photos that perfectly reflect each story’s content.
- Collaborate with our SEO and social-media teams to plan and optimize the distribution of each story.
- Use third-party tools, but also devise your own unique and creative paths to finding, reporting and writing about the very best stories out there.
- Cultivate a network of news sources to provide expert analysis for your articles, and to also provide a heads-up on big news.
- Occasionally appear in video reports, roundtable discussions, etc.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
- At least two to five years of experience writing tight, clean, accurate copy for a large digital publisher.
- The ability to generate spot news, explainers, Q&As and other types of content across multiple platforms (text, video and social media).
- Deep knowledge of SEO best practices.
- A desire to jump on news quickly and always cover the next big story, bringing fresh, original angles to a variety of topics.
- The ability to do news analysis.
To apply:
Please send your resume with “Staff Writer” in the subject line to resumes@thestreet.com
Chris RoushChris 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.