Reporter

The Real Deal; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading real estate news outlet seeks a reporter to join its Los Angeles team. The role involves writing several original articles weekly and producing in-depth features for newsletters and magazines. Ideal candidates will have strong writing, reporting, and interviewing skills, with a keen interest in real estate and business journalism. The position offers a salary range of $80,000 - $90,000 annually, depending on qualifications.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated writing, interviewing, and reporting skills.
• Ability to produce clean, well-organized, and accurate copy on deadline.
• Understanding of journalistic standards and ethics.
• Ability to juggle and prioritize multiple assignments.
• Familiarity with newsroom culture.

Responsibilities

• Contribute three to six original articles per week.
• Produce a longer story for the monthly magazine.
• Collaborate on investigative reporting projects.

Skills

Writing skills

Reporting skills

Interviewing skills

Attention to detail

Source cultivation

Ability to work under deadline

Business writing experience

Job description

This position requires a presence in Los Angeles.

About the Job

The Real Deal is looking for a reporter to join a rapidly growing media company focused on real estate journalism and headquartered in New York City. The reporter would be responsible for writing several original web stories per week and producing in-depth features for the website and our monthly magazine. The ideal candidate will have an interest in covering money, power and personalities and a keen desire to learn how the industry intersects with politics, finance, law, entertainment and other areas of the business world. The ability to break news is a must, as is the ability to cultivate sources, pitch story ideas and write clean copy on deadline. Experience in business journalism is a plus.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute three to six original articles per week to The Real Deal’s regular coverage of the real estate industry, typically focused on one of our markets (New York City, South Florida, Chicago, Texas, Los Angeles and San Francisco), but also occasionally on topics of national interest.
• In most months, contribute a longer story (1,000 to 2,000 words) to The Real Deal’s monthly, national print magazine.
• Occasionally contribute or collaborate on special reporting projects, typically investigative work or deeply researched features.

Job Requirements

• Demonstrated writing, interviewing and reporting skills; ability to produce clean, well‑organized and accurate copy on deadline, ranging from breaking news to long‑form features and investigations.
• Ability to write with voice and authority.
• Capacity to develop expertise and a robust array of sources in one or more of TRD’s coverage areas, such as residential brokerage and home sales, commercial real estate (office, retail, industrial, development), politics and policy, and technology.
• Ability to obtain and analyze information from databases, property records, financial reports, social media and other sources to identify and enhance stories about the real estate industry.
• Understanding of and adherence to journalistic standards, ethics and protocol.
• Ability to juggle and prioritize multiple assignments.
• Team player; willingness to collaborate with colleagues; familiarity with newsroom culture.
• Business writing experience is preferred.
• Ability to do on‑camera interviews, host TRD videos and moderate live events is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

$80,000 - $90,000 a year

The salary offered within this range will depend upon qualifications and other operational considerations.

Who We Are

The Real Deal is the largest real‑estate news outlet in the US, reaching millions of professionals daily through our media channels. We have received 60+ awards for editorial excellence over the past six years, including the General Excellence award from the Society of Business Writers and Editors.

Quantcast rates us among the 300‑most visited sites in the US and the website with the wealthiest audience and one of the most educated.

As a publication, The Real Deal is to real estate what Variety is to entertainment or what Politico is to Beltway politics – a plugged‑in news outlet that is read by the entire industry.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We partner with our employees to support diversity and inclusion in the workplace and through higher education programs supporting rising journalists.