Growth and Development Business Reporter

The Greenville News part of the USA Today Network is recruiting for a growth and development business reporter in Greenville South reporter will become the recognized voice of our business growth and development coverage. They willtrack business openings and closings dig into business trends andfind the latest developments in the housing and retail ideal candidate is an investigative reporter at heart who has the skills to analyze issues and the storytelling ability to show readers how major changes across the business landscape impact life in the should be adept at source development have experience using public records databases and other digital-focused tools bring a rock-solid knowledge of grammar and demonstrate a proven ability to meet daily and long-range business reporting and at least three years of experience at a daily newspaper or equivalent media are Greenville-Spartanburg area is a growing vibrant region home to the largest BMW productionfacility in the nation an emerging tech community and a robust tourism economy. We are located 90 minutes from Charlotte North Carolina2.5 hours from Atlanta and three hours from South Carolinas coastal :Bachelors or masters in communications journalism marketing or related field or equivalent combination of education and years or more of daily journalism experience in a digitally focused news judgment and editing in fluid fast-breaking stressful to identify story topics that will resonate with our audiences and execute them by delivering clear complete news articles and video as skill for a range of storytelling from real-time digital updates to narratives to investigative reporting employing alternative story forms and grasp of journalism skills (reporting and editing) and advanced knowledge of writing spelling grammar AP and local planning and organizational of metrics social media and SEO to build a coverage strategy using analytics and ability to use social media to augment news coverage and engage audience on digital -motivation and of media law and principles of ethical to multitask and excel under deadline pressure using time at collaborating in a cross-functional environment and adapting in a rapidly changing comfortable working with data and pursuing records requestsApplication Instructions:We are eager to learn more about you and how you fit this role. When you apply dont limit your upload to a resume; show us what youve done. To do so put together a single document file that includes the following in this order:Your resume one to two pages.A cover letter that outlines how you would approach the to 3-6 online samples of your work. Show us what youve produced or had a hand in that best reflects what you can do in your desired is important that these items be assembled into a single document and uploaded in PDF format. Completing these steps will ensure that your application receives the highest consideration.