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02/20/2015
Our Celebrities & What’s Trending Reporter
Enquirer Media and Gannett
Cincinnati.com and The Enquirer have a great opportunity for an Our Celebrities & What’s Trending Reporter.
In this role:
- You are 100% focus on the 25-45 audience.
- You bring stories about celebrities and personalities (athletes, media, social and digital celebs in our region) to our audience.
- You attend all the cool events and share with photos & details.
- You know what’s trending in and about Cincinnati and you write about it, mining social media.
- You know if someone from outside of Cincinnati is writing about our region (Yahoo Travel or somewhere else spotlighting our city) and you explain why and share it.
- You aggregate content from others to share (instagram, twitter, etc.).
- You ensure we produce content that serves all strategic parts of our community -- Butler/Warren counties and Northern Kentucky as well as Cincinnati.
- You are comfortable with voice -- you bring your unique voice to all your stories, social media, video appearances and public appearances. You are comfortable sharing some personal information that helps 25-45 year olds create a personal connection to you.
- You engage your audience consistently throughout the week -- you build a true community and relationship around your coverage.
- You continually initiate new techniques in your coverage to meet the interests and needs of 25-45 year olds.
- You break news on what is important to your audience.
- You are the person that people follow if they want to know what’s important in this area.
- You work with your advertising partner to grow and monetize the 25-45 audience.
Pacing: Signature piece once a month. Breaking news daily. In-depth take/insight on the news, weekly. Typical hours: varies, lots of night and weekend
Knowledge and Skills Needed:
- Ability to produce top-notch investigative and revelatory journalism.
- Exceptional cross-platform storytelling skills.
- Exceptional core journalism skills (reporting, producing and editing).
- Deep understanding of and curiosity about competition for our customers' time and money.
- Self-motivation and self-direction.
- Advanced knowledge of social media and how to engage fan base on digital platforms.
- Photo and video skills.
- Effective communicator; able to get along with diverse personalities.
- Able to multi-task and excel under intense deadline pressure in a rapidly changing environment.
- Knows how to use time efficiently in a 24-hour news environment.
- Works collaboratively within a cross-functional environment.
- Must embrace peer-to-peer feedback and training.
- Applies innovative, creative thinking to support the company’s goals.
- Writing, spelling, grammar, AP and local style.
- Organizational skills.
- Command of media law and Principles of Ethical Conduct.
Please send resume and clips when applying.
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As a part of Gannett Co., Inc., the nation's largest media and marketing solutions company, we offer a dynamic, community-focused environment where individuals are rewarded for exceptional performance. We offer competitive salaries and benefits, including health care, dental and vision coverage, flexible spending account, 401(k), paid vacation time, personal and sick leave, and tuition reimbursement. Pre-employment drug testing and background screening are required.
At Gannett we accept and respect the diversity of everyone. Diversity of experience, culture, education, interests, race and ethnicity, age, socio-economics, physical abilities, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, religion, and other beliefs breeds innovation and powers ideas. Diversity is the foundation of Gannett.
