Job Details
Job Location
Providence Business News, Inc. - Providence, RI
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
4 Year Degree
Travel Percentage
Up to 50%
Job Shift
Day
Job Category
Media - Journalism - Newspaper
Description
Overall Responsibilities :
- Identify business news and trends relevant to Rhode Island-based readers
- Responsible for developing multiple reporting beat areas
- Contribute to PBN’s daily news coverage and regularly produce enterprise and assigned stories for PBN print publications
- Provide photos when able and needed
- Collaborate with editorial staff to ensure seamless and comprehensive news coverage between digital, print, and social media
Specific Responsibilities
- Develop assigned PBN news beats
- Cultivate and maintain local and regional news sources, leads and story ideas
- Regularly contribute to PBN online daily news report while producing enterprise and assigned news features for biweekly print publication and PBN special publications
- Produce weekly or biweekly beat-related e-newsletter.
- Follow recurring print deadline schedule, working closely with supervising editors
- Attend news-based community functions and events as needed
- Track beat-related news developments throughout the state and region
- Adheres to company and departmental policies
- Adheres to standard practices and ethical standards of the industry
- Positive representative of department, company and industry at all times
- Communicate professionally with the public via phone, email and face-to-face interaction
- Communicates information to the appropriate individuals and/or departments in a timely manner, such as news tips, source suggestions or real or potential customer-relations issues
- Works in cooperation with all members of company in general and Editorial Department in particular
- All other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Behavior : Team player. Respectful of people’s time and their responsibilities. Conducts self in a manner that enhances yourself and WCI. Self-starter. Trustworthy. Highly motivated. Curious. Maintains a valid driver’s license.
Skills : Exceptional communication skills. Ability to consistently produce content that is clean, compelling and accurate. Strong writing skills. Tech savvy. Works well on daily and long-term deadlines. Understands reporting ethics. Familiar with AP style and WordPress. Skilled at managing time and competing priorities.
Knowledge : College degree in journalism or related field . At least two years full-time journalism experience preferred. Comfortable with social media, such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, with the desire to explore new platforms.