Reporter- Economic Development

Hartford Business Journal, the state’s leading business-to-business publication, is seeking a full-time staff writer to cover economic development in cities and towns within our coverage area. This is a newly-created position within our news department, which is growing. While many newspapers have shrunk considerably over the past year, HBJ is coming out of the pandemic with an expanded newsroom. We also aren’t corporately-owned. We are a small privately-held company with owners who are investing and growing our brand. Commercial real estate and economic development are our most important coverage areas and we are expanding our efforts to get into local communities. The staff writer should be an enterprising journalist who can develop sources within town and city governments who are responsible for economic development so we can report on the latest developments, trends and new projects. We are also looking for a reporter who knows their way around public records.