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Reporter - NY, Miami, LA, Dallas, Chicago, Austin, Houston
📅 Apr 10, 2024
ReportingWritingInterviewingNews Writing
📜 Description
- Write three to six original articles per week on real estate, focused mainly on a covered market and sometimes on national topics.
- Contribute a 1,000–2,000-word feature to the monthly national print magazine in most months.
- Collaborate on special reporting projects, including investigations and deeply researched features.
- Break news, cultivate sources and pitch story ideas.
- Research and analyze databases, property records, financial reports, social media and other sources.
- May conduct on-camera interviews, host videos or moderate live events.
🛠️ Requirements
- Demonstrated writing, interviewing and reporting skills; ability to produce accurate, organized copy on deadline.
- Ability to write with voice and authority across breaking news, features and investigations.
- Ability to develop expertise and sources in real estate coverage areas such as residential brokerage, commercial real estate, politics, policy or technology.
- Ability to obtain and analyze information from databases, property records, financial reports, social media and other sources.
- Understanding of journalistic standards, ethics and protocol.
- Ability to prioritize multiple assignments and collaborate with colleagues.
- Business writing experience preferred; on-camera interviews, video hosting or live-event moderation experience is a plus.
Full job description
This position requires a presence in any of these markets: NY, Miami, LA, Dallas, Chicago, Austin, Houston
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 produce 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
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