Job Overview
Florida\xe2\x80\x99s First Coast is one of the hottest real-estate markets in the country, with a resurgent downtown, a booming industrial sector, residential development happening at a \xe2\x80\x9csupernova\xe2\x80\x9d pace and a flood of new people and companies.
With that comes a number of issues, as the community deals with questions about affordable housing and smart growth, developers compete over projects and business leaders strategize their next steps.
We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for a reporter who can help our readers make sense of it \xe2\x80\x94 be the first to tell them what is happening and then step back to put the news in context.
Covering real estate and growth in Jacksonville requires a reporter who is driven to do the hard work of digging up news and intrigued by the challenge of both reporting daily updates and piecing together the larger picture of the forces shaping our community.
To do this job, you\xe2\x80\x99ll need to be great at sourcing, comfortable dealing with data and public records and have a drive to help business leaders understand and compete in a fast-moving world.
You\xe2\x80\x99ll get to break news for our daily report, write features about the people and issues that matter and have dedicated time for longer-form journalism. You\xe2\x80\x99ll also get competitive pay, a great benefits package and the opportunity to advance in a company that\xe2\x80\x99s growing: The JBJ has been a springboard for careers throughout American City Business Journals as well as other top-notch business publications.
The ideal candidate will blend traditional journalism skills - source building, sharp news judgment, interviewing prowess and scoop-driven reporting - with online and social media know-how. Reporters in our newsroom don\'t just turn in copy. They include videos, slideshows and other multimedia components that advance the story and further engage our audience. They break hard news that sometimes sources don\'t want brought to light, but they don\'t burn bridges.
If you have the enthusiasm, drive and talent to do the level of work we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for, we should talk. Your application should include your resume, your best clips and a cover letter explaining why you\'re excited about the job.
We have a hybrid workplace, with ~3 days a week in the office.
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