Real Estate Reporter
Listed on 2025-12-02
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Creative Arts/Media
Content Writer / Copywriter, Journalism, Digital Media / Production, Social Media
Overview
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Staff Writer
Location:
Downtown Dallas (TDMN) - Dallas, TX 75201 US (Primary)
Salary Grade
Job Type: Full-Time
Exemption Type:
Non-Exempt
Travel:
Some Travel
The Dallas Morning News is seeking a hard-charging, driven reporter to cover one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing real estate markets in the country.
This reporter will be part of a two-person real estate team covering a metropolitan area of more than 8 million people that is stretching its boundaries every day. We are searching for a high-energy, scoop-oriented reporter to dig into public records, develop a deep source book, disseminate data and synthesize emerging trends. We need someone who can write several stories a day and balance those with hard-hitting, thought-provoking enterprise pieces.
Dallas-Fort Worth residents have a voracious appetite for real estate news, with a deep interest in subjects ranging from residential home sale trends to commercial projects. Real estate coverage perennially leads our newsroom in digital subscriptions, giving your work the attention and audience it deserves.
North Texas is home to some of the nation’s largest homebuilders and most affluent neighborhoods, along with developers and billionaires working on ambitious commercial projects, property deals and leases. More than 20 Fortune 500 companies have headquarters here, including D.R. Horton, Jacobs, Fluor, CBRE, American Airlines, Charles Schwab, Southwest Airlines, McKesson, AT&T and more.
The News is rapidly expanding its Business team to produce the most dominant, distinctive coverage in Texas with robust digital storytelling, the new “Commerce Street” Linked In newsletter and a reimagined Business Sunday section in print and ePaper.
Responsibilities- Break news and write deeply reported enterprise stories
- Provide coverage of real estate industry in greater Dallas-Fort Worth area
- Cover residential and commercial real estate markets
- Report and produce content for all digital platforms related to your coverage areas, including breaking news, features and taking photos/video
- Promote content and reporting on social media platforms, including appearing on camera
- Develop exclusive sources and storylines
- Build digital stories with clickable headlines that include links, tags, multimedia and SEO
- Analyze traffic metrics and social media metrics to enhance decision-making on types of content to produce and when
- Find compelling stories that haven't been covered nationally or locally
- Applicants should have at least two years of related reporting experience
- Valid driver's license and registered vehicle to travel to assignments
- Two years of business reporting experience
- Strong sourcing, writing and reporting skills
- Aptitude for financial documents, public records and legal filings
- Track record of strong enterprise work and breaking news
- Adept with social media and website analytics
- Familiarity with the Dallas-Fort Worth landscape is a plus, but not required
- Fluency in Spanish is an advantage
- A bachelor’s degree in journalism or related field
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