Local Government Enterprise Reporter

The local government enterprise reporter focuses on how people live and work in South Florida with its sprawling metropolis of more than 60 local governments. The local government enterprise reporter is a free agent on the local government team, breaking stories from sources, reacting to quick-hit stories from Homestead to Coral Gables and digging for enterprise stories that connect people and how they live to their government. Using data to tease out trends and to hold local governments accountable is an important aspect of the job. Being adept at finding and building a digital audience by tapping into the themes and issues that affect large groups of people and large swaths of the South Florida geography is equally important. This beat is all about urgency on breaking news while producing enterprise pieces that capture trends. This reporter pursues exclusive enterprise stories that are essential to readers, hold leaders and institutions accountable and help readers understand the context of events and decisions that impact their lives.