General Assignment Reporter/Staff Reporter
About the role
Tell the stories that matter most to your community. Your work can make a real difference here.
Responsibilities
- Cover the community with urgency and purpose
- Report on breaking news, local developments, and key community issues
- Attend meetings, events, and public forums to stay close to the story
- Write quickly and clearly across digital and print while balancing daily production with longer-term reporting and follow-up
- Prioritize and move stories forward independently, knowing when a story requires a quick digital report, a follow-up, or deeper reporting
- Develop strong, meaningful local coverage
- Build a broad, diverse network of reliable sources and consistently develop new relationships beyond official spokespeople and press releases
- Generate original story ideas and pursue reporting beyond official sources
- Produce enterprise stories that go beyond the daily headline
- Develop expertise in an assigned subject and geographic area, becoming a reliable source of news and information in them
- Help strengthen the local news report
- Collaborate with editors, photographers, and other newsroom teammates
- Contribute story ideas and bring energy to daily coverage planning
- Use digital tools, social media, and audience insights to better reach readers
- Comfortable creating video and social content, with a strong instinct for stories that will resonate on digital platforms
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in journalism or related field required
Newsroom reporting experience with strong news writing skills and familiarity with AP style
Strong reporting, interviewing and newsgathering skills, with sound news judgment and the ability to work effectively under deadline
Curiosity, initiative, and a genuine interest in local communities
Comfort with digital storytelling and audience-focused journalism
A willingness to spend significant time outside the newsroom building relationships, attending community events and finding stories where people actually live and work
Qualifications
Your resume, cover letter, and writing samples
Skills
None specifically listed
Benefits
Commensurate with experience
Pay
N/A
Schedule
N/A
Benefits
Commensurate with experience
Not specified