This position requires a presence in Dallas.
About the job
The Real Deal is looking for a journalist with strong reporting and writing skills along with experience or a well-founded desire to grow as a leader and manager in the role of bureau chief.
The ideal candidate will be ready to guide a team of several fellow journalists while taking on limited but crucial reporting and writing duties.
Candidates must have an interest in covering the real estate industry as a key segment of business and the overall economy, with attention to how it intersects with politics, finance, law, entertainment and other areas of the commercial 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
- Direct daily coverage and oversee and coordinate reporting and editing, working under the umbrella of the organization’s standards and in collaboration with colleagues in New York, South Florida, Texas, Chicago and Southern California.
- Contribute several hard-news articles per week, with occasionally longer features for the web or monthly print magazine.
- Occasionally contribute or collaborate on special reporting projects, typically investigative work or deeply researched features
Job Requirements:
- Demonstrated writing, interviewing and reporting and editing 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
Compensation & Benefits:
The salary offered within this range will depend upon qualifications and other operational considerations.
Who We Are:
The Real Deal is the largest real-estate news outlet in the US, reaching millions of professionals daily through our media channels. We have received 60+ awards for editorial excellence over the past six years, including the General Excellence award from the Society of Business Writers and Editors.
Quantcast rates us among the 300-most visited sites in the US and the website with the wealthiest audience and one of the most educated.
As a publication, The Real Deal is to real estate what Variety is to entertainment or what Politico is to Beltway politics – a plugged-in news outlet that is read by the entire industry.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We partner with our employees to support diversity and inclusion in the workplace and through higher education programs supporting rising journalists.
