SFGATE Tech Reporter

Your impact:

Under the direction of SFGATE’s news editor, the tech reporter will be a versatile journalist who can deftly navigate the vast, complex world that is the tech industry. You will report on the biggest employers in the region, tracking layoffs, mergers, and the comings and goings of the titans that run Silicon Valley and San Francisco. You’ll identify industry trends — whether they concern hiring, company culture or valuations — and distill them for a highly engaged audience. We want a reporter who is interested not just in the biggest players in the tech world, but also in the users, workers and executives behind it all. Strong reporting and writing skills, ability to work under tight deadlines and the desire to dig deep to get a story are necessary skills to do this job well.

Why SFGATE?

Launched in 1994, SFGATE.com was one of the first large-market media sites in the world and served as the exclusive digital home of the San Francisco Chronicle for 19 years. In 2019, the Chronicle (which can now be found online at the paywalled sfchronicle.com) and SFGATE officially became two separately run entities with their own editorial staffs and independent newsrooms.

Today, SFGATE is a digital-only publication that reaches more than 28 million readers every month and tells the stories of the people, places and ideas that make San Francisco, and the Bay Area at large, the weird and wonderful place that it is. We help readers navigate their day, whether it’s by keeping them updated on big breaking news, guiding them to interesting local experiences or sharing a part of the Bay Area they haven’t seen before.

The site is home to nine verticals: Culture, offering a unique mix of the entertainment news you actually need and the underground stories from hidden corners of the Bay Area you want; Local, the premier destination for everything that life in San Francisco encompasses (from wildly expensive real estate to schools to what it’s like to live above a raucous bar); Sports, covering the intersection of sports and culture; Tech, covering the intersection of tech and culture; Travel, covering everything from flight deals and travel news to hotel hacks and under-the-radar day trips; Politics, where we keep you up to speed on all local, state and national politics that have implications on the Bay Area; Food + Drink, where we tell you the backstory of the people behind the bar and in the kitchen; Cannabis, where we cover the sprawling industry of legal weed in California, good, bad and ugly; and News. Plus, the site has full-time local editors covering both Lake Tahoe and the Central Coast, a SoCal bureau that focuses on Los Angeles food, culture and the outdoors, as well as Disneyland, a new National Parks bureau with editors across the West Coast covering national parks in California, the Southwest, Big Sky Country and the Pacific Northwest, and a satellite editor covering Hawaii.

What you'll do:

• Report to the SFGATE news editor, writing several stories a week that balance quick news hits and second-day angles on the biggest topics in tech
• Keep track of the major tech companies in the Bay Area, including how they’re operating, what they’re making, where they’re locating and what their employees are up to
• Pitch longer-form stories to your editor once a month that seek to dig deep into a particular tech phenomenon or element of tech culture in California
• Work autonomously when needed and meet deadlines consistently
• Communicate with the copy desk and editors in Slack
• Monitor analytics and build an understanding of which stories resonate with readers and which don’t

Who you are:

• You have 1 to 3 years of relevant news reporting experience at a newspaper or online news site
• You’re a hungry reporter with a long list of ideas
• You’re interested in using documents and databases to inform your reporting, via company earnings sheets, SEC filings, and the like
• You're based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate by an agreed-upon date
• You've read SFGATE and have an understanding of the brand and voice

In accordance with applicable law, Hearst is required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role if hired in California. The reasonable estimate is between $80,000 and $85,000. Please note this information is specific to those hired in San Francisco. If this role is open to candidates outside of San Francisco, the salary range would be aligned to that specific location. A final decision on the successful candidate’s starting salary will be based on a number of permissible, non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to skills and experience, training, certifications and education.

About SFGATE:

SFGATE (www.sfgate.com) is the go-to online source for all news and entertainment related to the Bay Area. With a Pulitzer Prize and over 25+ million unique visitors each month, SFGATE publishes a moment-by-moment, 360-degree view of local news in the San Francisco Bay Area and a wider lens focusing on California’s travel destinations. Both local news coverage and travel destinations are wildly popular with a nationally engaged audience.

HNP Overview:

With 2,500 employees across the nation, Hearst Newspapers (HNP) represents a network of 28 daily and 50 weekly publications, including the Austin American-Statesman, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany). Our portfolio also includes several top digital-only news and lifestyle sites such as Chron., CT Insider, MySA and SFGATE, along with marketing services businesses like Medium Giant and entertainment brands such as King Features Syndicate.

At HNP, we’re investing in new and innovative ways to tell stories — growing newsrooms, diversifying tools and evolving platforms — to support the millions of people who trust us each month to help them make decisions, take action and be inspired.

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Under the direction of SFGATE’s news editor, the tech reporter will be a versatile journalist who can deftly navigate the vast, complex world that is the tech industry. You will report on the biggest employers in the region, tracking layoffs, mergers, and the comings and goings of the titans that run Silicon Valley and San Francisco. You’ll identify industry trends — whether they concern hiring, company culture or valuations — and distill them for a highly engaged audience. We want a reporter who is interested not just in the biggest players in the tech world, but also in the users, workers and executives behind it all. Strong reporting and writing skills, ability to work under tight deadlines and the desire to dig deep to get a story are necessary skills to do this job well.