California Bureau Chief

🔥 13 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $95k - $105k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

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The Real Deal

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51 - 200 employees

📱 Media

🏠 Real Estate

💸 Finance

Media • Real Estate • Finance

The Real Deal is the premier real-estate news outlet in the US, providing transparency in one of the world's most important and least understood industries. It reaches millions of professionals daily through various channels including digital, print, social media, and events. The company specializes in breaking news, market intelligence, custom research, proprietary rankings, deal analysis, profiles, and trends related to both commercial and residential real estate. Over the past five years, The Real Deal has received more than 50 awards for editorial excellence, including the General Excellence award from the Society of Business Writers and Editors.

📋 Description

• Write two to four original articles per week covering the West Coast real estate industry, focusing on Los Angeles and San Francisco • Produce in-depth features for The Real Deal’s monthly magazine • Edit key market stories, including breaking news and web features • Lead daily news scrums for a team of three California-based reporters • Direct coverage and guide reporters toward important stories • Liaise with New York headquarters to align with editorial priorities • Occasionally contribute approximately 2,000-word stories for the national monthly magazine • Help shape and guide coverage of the real estate industry • Mentor and sharpen the skills of other reporters

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated writing, interviewing and reporting 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 • Ability to quickly learn a complex financial beat, sourcing up in the industry and learning the ins and outs of residential and commercial real estate and real estate development • Ability to lead a team, directing reporters towards the most important stories, identifying the important narratives within them, and providing both conceptual feedback on ideas and practical line edits on filed drafts • Understanding of and adherence to journalistic standards, ethics and protocol • Ability to juggle and prioritize multiple assignments • Ability to do on-camera interviews, host TRD videos and moderate live events is a plus • Experience in business journalism • Ability to break news, cultivate sources, pitch story ideas and write clean copy on deadline

🏖️ Benefits

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