About Car Dealership Guy
Car Dealership Guy (CDG) is the leading media platform in automotive retail, reaching millions of dealers, executives, industry professionals, and consumers every month through our newsletters, podcasts, and digital channels.
What began as a single voice explaining the car business has grown into one of the most trusted sources of insight and analysis in the industry. Franchise dealers, vendor partners, OEM leaders, and operators rely on CDG for high-signal reporting, real-time market intelligence, and sharp industry commentary that helps them navigate a rapidly changing market.
Today, CDG is building the industry’s definitive platform for intelligence, influence, and insight across automotive retail.
The Role
We’re hiring a full-time Staff Journalist to join a small, fast-moving editorial team focused entirely on franchise dealers.
This role owns daily reporting for a dealer-first audience. You’ll publish daily articles covering the trends, data, and decisions shaping dealership operations. After your first few months, you’ll take ownership of a dedicated beat newsletter (fixed ops, F&I, used vehicles, or another high-value vertical).
We’re looking for someone who takes the work seriously and brings genuine curiosity to it. We want a reporter who has their own ideas, pitches stories, and pushes the coverage forward. Automotive background helps, but what matters most is a drive to understand a complex industry and explain it clearly to the people running stores every day.
This is original, sourced reporting, with a dealer-facing lens. Not aggregation, not repackaged studies.
Responsibilities
Reporting & Writing
- Publish daily dealer-facing articles: trend coverage, data analysis, sourced stories, and market breakdowns
- Develop and maintain sources inside dealerships, dealer groups, and the broader retail ecosystem
- Report with a dealer’s perspective (what does this mean for someone running a store right now)
- Cover core beats: dealership operations, fixed ops, inventory, F&I, EV adoption, and market trends
- Write tight and structured, Axios or Morning Brew in style, not legacy trade press
- Use historical context when it genuinely adds to the story
- Contribute pitches and story ideas to editorial conversations regularly
Newsletter
- After your initial ramp period, own a dedicated beat-specific newsletter
- Build and serve a defined dealer audience through consistent, original coverage
- Bring your own voice to the beat within CDG’s editorial standards
Workflow & Standards
- Accuracy and fact-checking on every piece, every time
- Apply journalism ethics to daily work regardless of format or speed of the news cycle
- Use AI tools (e.g., Claude, Gemini) to support research and workflow efficiency, not to replace original reporting or editorial voice
- Communicate via Slack, draft and edit in Google Docs, manage tasks in Notion, publish newsletters in Beehiiv
- Occasionally support branded content and sponsor integrations with full editorial transparency
- Travel to 2 to 3 automotive conferences per year for on-the-ground coverage
What We’re Looking For
- 3+ years in business journalism, trade media, or beat reporting (automotive knowledge required)
- Clips that demonstrate real sourcing, analysis, or original research, not summaries of what others reported
- Comfortable reading and working with data (dealership metrics, SAAR figures, market reports)
- Understanding of automotive retail history and an ability to apply that context to current coverage
- Clear, fast writer who doesn’t sacrifice accuracy for speed
- Strong journalism ethics: accuracy, fairness, transparency, and a commitment to getting it right before it publishes
- Self-directed with strong async communication habits in a remote environment
- Collaborative by nature and motivated to make the publication better, not just to file and move on
- Experience with newsletters or digital publishing formats is a plus
How to Apply
Please submit your resume and two to three clips that best represent your reporting. Applications without clips will not be considered.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Car Dealership Guy is an equal opportunity employer. We make hiring decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
We believe diverse perspectives make stronger teams and better journalism, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
