Real Estate Reporter

acbjcareers; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

acbjcareers in Columbus, OH is seeking a dynamic editor to shape the look, voice and coverage across our digital news operation, weekly print edition, and daily emails. You will report and write short-form and long-form stories for the website and print edition, owning the beat and driving exclusive reporting.

You will relentlessly develop sources, manage relationships with executives and community leaders, and scoop competitors with why and how.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Desire and ability to break news and identify newsworthy events and sources.
• Strong analytical and investigative-interviewing skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively; relate well with a wide range of people.
• Drive to develop sources and build audience.
• Strong news-writing, ethics and story-structure understanding.
• Ability to leverage sources to differentiate content from competitors.
• Multimedia skills including video, photos, and on-camera work are helpful.
• Proficient with MS Office products.
• Proficient with Teams, Zoom, Webex, etc.

Responsibilities

• Define a clear vision for the look, feel and voice of our products including a digital news operation, weekly edition, and daily emails.
• Report and write short-form and long-form stories for the website and weekly print edition.
• Own the beat and drive day-to-day coverage, digging source-driven exclusives.
• Develop sources and manage relationships with executives and community leaders.
• Scoop competitors on significant stories with reasons and context.

Skills

News instincts

Investigative skills

Independent work

Teamwork

Interpersonal skills

Source development

News writing

Journalistic ethics

Source relationships

Multimedia

MS Office

Video conferencing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Job description

Responsibilities

• Define a clear and compelling vision for the look, feel and voice of our products, including a thriving digital news operation, a printed weekly edition, and daily emails.
• 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.

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Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Desire and ability to break news and to identify newsworthy events and sources
• Strong analytical and investigative-interviewing skills
• Ability to work both independently and collaborativelyAbility to relate comfortably to a wide range of people, in person, on the phone and online
• A clear drive to develop sources and build audience
• Solid understanding of news writing, journalistic ethics and story structure.
• Ability to leverage relationships with sources to deliver content that differentiates the organization from competitors.
• Multimedia skills, including video, photos, broadcast, on-camera, helpful.
• Proficient with MS Office Products
• Proficient with Web-Based Communication Platforms (Teams, Zoom, Webex, etc.)