Lifestyle All Media Journalist I

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Lifestyle All Media Journalist I

18 Jul 2024
Ohio, Dayton / springfield 00000 Dayton / springfield USA
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Lifestyle All Media Journalist I

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The Dayton Daily News is seeking an all-media journalist to join our fast-paced, digital-first newsroom that serves the greater Dayton area.

This journalist would be responsible for covering local lifestyles and entertainment topics including local trending news, events, food/dining, arts/entertainment and the cultural scene in the Dayton area.

We are looking for a journalist and storyteller who can break local entertainment news, identify and write about trending local lifestyle and entertainment topics and create well-researched enterprise and human interest stories that include photos and video.

This position also includes creating and maintaining search-driven and search-optimized articles and guides, photo galleries and videos. This journalist should be active on social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and regularly engage with those audiences.

This reporter’s work would serve digital and print publications for Cox Ohio Publishing, including Dayton Daily News, Dayton.com, the Hamilton-Journal News and the Springfield News-Sun.

The ideal candidate is a reporter and writer with a passion for storytelling in multiple formats and thrives in a fast-paced work environment.


Responsibilities include:

  • Researching and writing articles that are digital first but can be adapted to appear in the printed newspaper.

  • Telling stories through articles, lists, photos, videos and other alternative content presentations including maps and quizzes.

  • Identifying locally trending lifestyle, dining and entertainment topics and quickly creating content about those topics.

  • Optimizing digital content for mobile devices

  • Writing well-researched local lifestyles and entertainment enterprise stories to appear on digital products and on Lifestyles section covers.

  • Helping to plan and create content around annual people’s choice poll Best of Dayton

  • Using social media as a platform to cover local events and news, promote content and engage with the audience

  • Covering general news assignments and breaking news as needed as part of a team of versatile all-media journalists


Qualifications

Job Skills

  • Strong written language and communication skills

  • Excellent reporting, researching, interviewing, writing and storytelling skills

  • Can write with urgency for digital products and provide meaning and context for print products

  • Ability to handle multiple assignments and deadlines simultaneously and produce accurate work at a high volume

  • Use research to tailor stories to fit the audiences for print and digital products

  • Use social media to promote content, gather content ideas and engage with readers

  • Be familiar and comfortable with standards for avoiding libel and slander, and have a good grasp of Ohio’s public records laws

  • Ability to work in a high-energy, fast-paced environment and be committed to learning throughout their careers.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications or a related field preferred.

  • At least one year of experience in journalism, communications, marketing, public relations, advertising, social media or related media field

  • A portfolio of work that demonstrates reporting, writing, photography, video skills as well as successful social media engagement.

  • Must have and maintain a valid driver’s license and safe driving record due to expectations of driving to cover news/events


About Cox Media Group


Cox Media Group is an integrated broadcasting, publishing, direct marketing and digital media company. The company’s operations currently include broadcast television stations, radio stations, daily newspapers and non-daily publications; and digital sites and services, like Clark.com, Dawg Nation, SEC Country, Hookem.com, Mundo Hispanico, Southern Kitchen and Diehards. Additionally, CMG operates the National Advertising Platform businesses of CoxReps - the country’s biggest television rep firm - Gamut, and Videa. For more information about Cox Media Group, please check us out online at www.coxmediagroup.com.


Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer - All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Organization: Cox Enterprises

Primary Location: US-OH-Dayton-1611 S Main St

Employee Status: Regular

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Shift: Day Job - some week-ends /evenings

Travel: No

Schedule: Full-time

Unposting Date: Ongoing

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