Upstate Business Journal seeks reporter

The Upstate Business Journal is seeking a reporter to cover the dynamic business community of Upstate South Carolina, focusing primarily on the counties of Greenville and Spartanburg.

We need a writer with proven experience at source building and enterprise reporting, who can produce breaking and in-depth business coverage with the drive and curiosity to find the great stories no one else is telling.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism or related field with minimum three years business reporting experience in a newspaper setting. (Comparable education and experience considered).
• Proficient at reporting and writing news in a multiplatform environment, including print, online, and other virtual publications.
• Ability to cover spot news with enterprise angles on deadline.
• Strong analytical and investigative interviewing skills.
• Proficiency using social media to source and promote content.
• Competitive, collaborative, curious.

Role Snapshot

• Produce spot news, enterprise, and feature stories for the Upstate Business Journal, both digital and print. Contribute short-form (daily online posts) and long-form (print) stories to our news products.
• This individual will also play an active role in planning content and shaping the print and digital products into the prime, must-read news sources for the Upstate business community.

Duties:

• Story production for daily digital and weekly print news publications; spot news, enterprise and feature.
• Regular collaboration with Greenville Journal and UBJ news writers, editors, and freelancers.
• Use networking events, social media, LinkedIn and other outlets to build your source pool and audience.

About Us:

The Upstate Business Journal is a metropolitan community weekly magazine published daily via Web and mobile device and weekly via print magazine (36,000 target distribution). UBJ is published by Community Journals LLC, a local media company based in Greenville, S.C. Other publications include Greenville Journal (weekly business news magazine), TOWN and At Home magazines, Behind the Counter, and Do Downtown.

Greenville is a vibrant city featuring an award-winning downtown, miles of greenways, more than 400 acres of park space and thriving, walkable neighborhoods. You’ll find 99 indie restaurants in a 10-block stretch of downtown and a 60-foot waterfall framed by a suspension bridge just off Main Street. Greenville County (population 451,000) is home to more than 50 Fortune 500 companies, including 3M, Lockheed, and GE, and is nurturing a new generation of businesses in technology, auto manufacturing, and the biosciences.

Send resume with references, contact information and work samples to Chris Haire, Editor, at chaire@communityjournals.com. No phone calls, please.