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SalaryGulfshore Business and The Naples Press seek an energetic and ambitious Senior Writer/Editor. The ideal candidate should understand the Naples/Collier County business landscape and the importance of local community news with the ability to write clean copy on deadline that’s accurate, thorough, concise and thought provoking. This is a hybrid position between the two publications.
Responsibilities:
The ideal candidate will have:
Benefits:
Full-time new hires: Eligible to participate in all Company benefit plans, including:
Responsibilities:
- Write daily, weekly and monthly stories across brands
- Pursue exclusive content on a variety of topics from health care to education to government
- Develop long-form enterprise and investigative pieces
- Cultivate and maintain a network of sources and relationships with key players in our communities
- Dig underneath the words of city/county government agendas to find what’s really coming up at government meetings
- Attend city/county government meetings
The ideal candidate will have:
- At least five years of experience working in daily or weekly newsroom environments
- Talent for identifying fresh angles on the news of the day, consistently pitching fresh, creative approaches that gives the “daily” story more perspective
- Strong copy-editing skills and the ability to produce content that is fair, accurate and thorough
- A demonstrated ability to dig deeper into important stories with a thirst for digging through documents and building sources
- Willingness to tackle any assignment from features to enterprise to government to business
- Understands both the limitations of immediacy and advantages of long-range issues for weekly and monthly publications
- Ability to ferret out a good story, whether it takes dense, investigative work or a great sense of humor for lighter subjects
- Ability to meet tight deadlines and juggle daily, short-term enterprise and long-term enterprise stories
- Ability to work independently and with other members of the team and isn’t afraid to ask fellow writers for their expertise
Benefits:
Full-time new hires: Eligible to participate in all Company benefit plans, including:
- Health, Dental, Vision Insurance, and HSA
- 1st of the month after 30 days employment
- Subject to plan terms
- Eligibility for company-paid benefits such as life insurance & EAP and employee-paid benefits such as short-term disability
- PTO – Earned on Accrual Basis
- Company-Paid Holidays
- 401(k)
Southwest Florida is often praised as being one of the healthiest and happiest places in the world with miles of white-sand beaches and a dynamic community. Broadcast Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are a drug-free and smoke-free environment.
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