Business Reporter

BizTimes Media

BizTimes Media LLC is a multi-media company that publishes BizTimes Milwaukee magazine and operates BizTimes.com, a national award-winning local business news web site.

BizTimes Milwaukee is a business news magazine with a circulation of more than 12,000+ businesses and 59,000 readers. The magazine provides news and operational insight to owners and managers of southeastern Wisconsin companies. The print edition is published every other Monday.

The editorial staff also produces the BizTimes Daily news bulletin, Morning Headlines news bulletin and a stable of weekly newsletters.

http://www.biztimes.com


Position Details

Business Reporter
Job
Full-time
7/12/2022
Southeast Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

BizTimes Media (BizTimes Milwaukee & www.BizTimes.com), an award-winning media company that covers the southeastern Wisconsin business community, is seeking an experienced, dynamic, self-starting reporter

BizTimes Media is seeking a self-driven reporter to join its award-winning editorial team. The reporter will generate editorial content for the BizTimes Milwaukee magazine and the BizTimes.com website. The magazine and website have each received numerous local and national journalism awards for content and design.

In addition to writing articles (of varying length) for the magazine and website, the reporter will be expected to take photographs, use social media, conduct interviews, attend meetings, search public records, and conduct other research to develop story ideas and to do reporting for the stories they write.

The reporter will also attend BizTimes Media events and help plan and in some cases speak at the events.

Beats are to be determined but the reporter will be expected to be a team player willing and able to cover any industry in the southeastern Wisconsin business community and economy. BizTimes Milwaukee covers an 8-county area of southeastern Wisconsin.

The ideal candidate will have a college degree in journalism and some experience as a reporter with a daily newspaper.

Minimum skills and qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in journalism.
  • Minimum of one year of print and/or online journalism experience.
  • Enterprise reporting skills demonstrating an ability to break news.
  • Proven ability to write clearly and accurately, and meet deadlines on multiple platforms.
  • Good news judgment and research habits.
  • Basic photography skills.
  • Familiar and comfortable with social media.
  • Must be a team player who will collaborate with our five-person newsroom.

BizTimes Media, established in 1995, offers a competitive wage and benefits package and a friendly work environment. BizTimes Media also offers an attractive benefit package and includes health insurance and 401(k).This is a great time to join our organization—a profitable, well established publishing leader.



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