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Reporter
Tribune Publishing
Newport News, VA, United States
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ROLE: To gather and generate news articles that are accurate, interesting, creative, timely, informative, balanced and fair.
Responsibilities:
• Gather information and write stories for publication in the Daily Press, print and online, as well as associated publications.
• Recognize potential stories from an assigned coverage beat or elsewhere.
• Maintain aggressive and regular contact with sources, both in person and by telephone, on assigned coverage beat.
• Maintain a viable list of enterprise story ideas.
• Plan activities to assure satisfactory productivity through both assigned and self-generated stories.
• Work with designers and editors to assign best possible illustrations and photos for articles.
• Shoot still photography and videos as appropriate to subject assignment.
• Send appropriate alerts to Facebook and Twitter.
• Maintain blog of specific beat where appropriate.
• Update mobile website and send text messages as appropriate.
• May work with marketing staff on special projects and appearances, attending special events to promote brand.
• May promote and conduct on-line chats periodically.
Qualifications:
• Undergraduate degree in journalism or a related field or have equivalent related experience in journalism.
• Requires demonstrable ability to write accurate, well-organized and grammatically correct stories in newspaper style.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with a variety of news sources is crucial.
• Must be able to accurately type at least 40 words per minute.
• Three to five years of experience in news at a similar or smaller newspaper is preferred.
• Requires a personal automobile and a valid driver's license.