The Oregonian/OregonLive is looking for an energetic, curious, creative and flexible reporter to join our team of reporters for year-round coverage of trending sports, business and pop culture topics. This position will work to drive traffic to OregonLive through well-reported, high interests stories on a variety of subject with an emphasis on timeliness and trends. A willingness to listen to OregonLive’s audience and respond is a must. You will lead discussions with the audience, answer questions and comments, engage with social media – and possibly represent the company on TV, radio, podcasts or video shows.

REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism or Communications or related field required
• Minimum of 1 – 2 years of journalism experience or the equivalent with a proven ability in reporting and writing required
• Proven experience building, maintaining and engaging an active audience
• Ability to work under deadline pressure and prioritize tasks appropriately
• Solid understanding of news writing, journalistic ethics and story structure
• Experience with search engine optimization practices
• Experience taking photos, recording audio and shooting video with ability to edit
• Experience with using social media to source and promote content a plus
• Spanish fluency a plus
• Demonstrated capability in capitalizing on high-value topics by engaging audiences in frequency and urgency
• Understanding of the methods and tools used to deliver content across a variety of platforms
• Understanding imperatives of multiple platforms – print, mobile, Internet, etc.
• Mastery of social media and digital interaction within company social media guidelines
• Proven ability to utilize a broad set of tools to tell stories and engage the audience
• Keeps abreast of industry advances and proactively considers new methods of reaching audiences including engaging, interactive and optimized product offerings

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The duties listed are intended as examples only and may not represent a complete list. Duties and Responsibilities, work schedules and/or location may change based on evolving business needs.
• Gather information and write journalistically sound news elements for use in all media platforms, existing and future, that are:
• Balanced and factual
• Timely, engaging and topical
• Well-sourced and contextually correct
• Learn and employ all techniques for effective digital “beat-blogging” reporting across all platforms, including but not limited to:
• Frequent, incremental posting throughout the day
• Story aggregation and topical link-posting
• Interacting on social media platforms, with story shares, objective commentary, and promoting the news organization’s content initiatives
• Understanding and employing the means for monitoring audience interest and competitors’ posting on your topic, including setting up Google alerts, Twitter and RSS feeds
• Work independently and remotely, while maintaining operational communication with editor and, when applicable, production center.
• Working knowledge and use of the hardware, software and cloud-based equipment and systems for direct-to-web production and engagement, including but not limited to:
• Taking photographs and short video, and posting it to the web as well as uploading to any internal production systems
• Using laptops and smartphones for remote web reporting
• Using Arc and Photo Center content management systems, and any future CMS
• Understand our news organization’s audience traffic tracking systems and analytical reports
• Other duties as assigned.

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