Job Details
Reporter
2026-02-03 American City Business Journals Portland,OR
Description:
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- Write one to two daily stories
- Write enterprise and longer-form stories
- Own the beat, dictating day-to-day coverage and delivering source-driven exclusives and scoops
- Relentlessly develop sources and manage relationships with high-level executives and other community leaders
- Scoop competitors on significant stories, not only telling readers what happened, but why and how
- Help as needed with setup, tear down and production at Portland Business Journal events
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- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- Ability to work under daily deadline pressure
- Ability to report and write long-form, enterprise stories
- Ability to break news
- Ability to develop deep source networks
- Ability to use data to drive reporting and uncover news
- Ability to use public documents to drive reporting and uncover news
- Ability to use social media to inform reporting, find sources and drive conversations
- Strong analytical and investigative skills
- Competitive, collaborative, curious
- Multimedia skills, including video and photography are helpful
- Proficient with MS Office Products
- Proficient with web-based communication platforms (Teams, Zoom, Webex, etc)