Job Description

• Build familiarity with a variety of industries, companies, and newsmakers in the Bay Area.
• Monitor both automated and cultivated human sources to identify breaking news.
• Prioritizes what is newsworthy in real time. Cross-checks facts to ensure accuracy, especially critical during fast-moving situations. Distills complex developments into clear, digestible information.
• Publish daily content, 12 plus articles per week
• Find trends in daily coverage that lead to in-depth reporting, scoops, exclusives and breaking news.
• Attend business events to meet and identify sources.
• Attend all required ACBJ events
• Take on any other assignment made by manager(s).
• Work cooperatively and collaboratively with all colleagues and sources

• 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 collaboratively
• Ability 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.)