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Reporter needed for biotech news site in New York

By Robin J Phillips on Feb 03, 2010 in Health care, Job listings, Jobs

GenomeWeb News is looking for a journalist to join its daily news team.

Genome Web News In their JournalismJobs.com job listing, editors asked for a motivated reporter with a few years experience who can write quickly and clearly about breaking news in the areas of

  • genomics,
  • biotech research,
  • molecular diagnostics,
  • and other related fields.

The beat they are hiring for will require a mix of business, science, and technology reporting and editing. Applicants should have experience filing and/or editing stories under deadline in these areas. Some familiarity with the genomics field and personalized medicine would be desirable, though not necessary.

The successful candidates will cover the companies and organizations that develop, sell, and use instruments and reagents for genomics, proteomics, cell analysis, and molecular diagnostic applications. You will be filing breaking news in real time as well as longer enterprise pieces on a rolling deadline. In addition, you will be required to do some editing of other reporters’ articles.

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About the Author

I became Web managing editor at the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism in mid-2009. Before that I was Online Community Manager for azcentral, the online site for The Arizona Republic. Before arriving in Arizona, I worked at Newsday where I was Deputy Business Editor. I was the small business editor at BusinessWeek Online. I teach journalists to use Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools to expand and manage their networks.

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