Newsday
Melville, NY
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Job Description
This reporter covers personal finance topics important to Long Islanders, with particular emphasis on affordability and the region’s tech/startup scene. The successful candidate will develop enterprise stories and cover breaking business news by cultivating sources to help build a diverse audience. The reporter will work closely with editors to monitor metrics and apply data to inform coverage as we serve our loyal readers, seek new subscribers and strive to better understand key audiences and topics. The beat calls for handling breaking news while producing daily and weekend enterprise. The reporter must be able to juggle multiple stories on tight deadlines.
Job Qualifications
• Three (3) to five (5) years of experience covering business/personal finance topics.
• Demonstrated ability to break news, file quickly and accurately for all our platforms, meet tight deadlines, juggle more than one story at a time, cultivate sources, understand the importance of data-driven reporting and produce high-profile enterprise stories.
• A self-starter who can bring a creative approach to covering the news.
• Comfortable and proficient using social media, smartphone photo and video and other media platforms to report and tell stories.
• Ability to write in an engaging manner is essential.
• Attention to detail is required.
• Ability and willingness to collaborate and build a rapport with others.
• Ability to find fresh story angles and write concise, lively copy in keeping with Newsday’s tone and format.
• Strong organization and time management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
