Senior News Editor

Move Incorporated

(New York, New York)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About Move Incorporated

Move, Inc., a subsidiary of News Corp, is a leading provider of online real estate services and operates the Move network of real estate websites and mobile experiences for consumers and real estate professionals.

Responsibilities
  • Deliver daily posts of various lengths on the latest real estate related news—quickly, authorativiely, and using the approachable, witty and knowledable realtor.com tone

  • Creating actionable stories with clear benefits and meanings of numbers — home prices, mortgage rates, housing starts—for our large and fast-growing home buying and selling audience

  • Distill sometimes complex data into compulsively readable, traffic generating copy, and promote it on social media

  • Develop a top list of expert sources to help our audience understand complicated issues

  • Team with our on staff chief economist and data journalist to devise new, sometimes surprising, often clever and press-generating ways to crunch and deliver our vast resources of internal data

  • Reblog relevant, important or just fun and quirky real estate stories and find fast and smart ways to develop real estate angles on news of the day

  • Eventually write and/or oversee a daily morning newsletter, rounding up the most important real estate and related news of the day

Ideal Candidate
  • BA in journalism or related field

  • Minimum 5 to 7 years of experience as a professional news reporter and editor on the web with a track record in breaking and delivering big stories

  • Experience with real estate and/or financially based content

  • Top-notch writing and editing skills, with a deep well of story ideas and a strong sense of reader service

  • A highly organized and very clean line editor who can elevate copy to new heights

  • Ability to maintain high quality work while meeting tight deadlines

  • Familiarity with Wordpress and understanding of SEO

  • A deep understanding of the potential and workings of all major social media platforms

  • A sense of humor and a team player who will add a special magic to our growing staff

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New York, New York
Skills Desired
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  • Meeting Deadlines
  • Team Player
  • Editorials
  • Highly Organized
  • Journalism
  • Real Estate Market
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Social Media Monitoring
  • WordPress
  • Writing
  • Newsletter Writing

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