Food and Restaurant Reporter

This is a Full Time Job

We're looking for an enterprising, audience-focused and collaborative reporter to join HCMG's food team. This reporter would cover the state's restaurant scene, including breaking news, emerging trends in food, contributing to interactives on cuisines and more through text, photos and video.

Duties and responsibilities:
• Works collaboratively with editors, other reporters, photographers and audience team members to tell impactful stories across platforms that engage and retain local subscribers and other readers.
• Reports and writes quickly and effectively to break news online and follows up when appropriate with more in-depth enterprise pieces.
• Demonstrates a comfort level with analyzing and interpreting metrics and uses them to inform coverage decisions in real-time and the long-term.
• Effectively shoots and edits photos and video to accompany stories.

Qualifications:
• Experience writing or editing at a newspaper, news website or magazine.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in journalism, English, communications or related field preferred.
• Demonstrated success working in a deadline-driven environment.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with a proven ability to effectively juggle multiple tasks.
• Previous food reporting experience a plus, but not required.
• Ability to speak a second language like Spanish a plus.
• Valid driver's license and a working vehicle are required for this position.

This full-time job with benefits is based in Connecticut and is not eligible for remote candidates.