Part-Time Freelance Reporter, US News & Crime

Responsibilities

• Responsible for original, enterprise and investigative reporting
• Must be able to respond to breaking news on beat and turn stories accurately under pressure
• Able to travel to breaking news events at a moment's notice
• Able to consistently produce stories with original video, interviews, photos and graphic elements
• Ideal candidate will have a robust rolodex of criminal, legal and police contacts
• Pitch stories daily as well as execute assignments, including field assignments

Requirements

• Professional newsroom experience
• Experience covering US/WORLD news at a national media outlet, digital experience preferred
• Experience covering crime, courts, legal, and investigations
• Knowledge of AP style writing
• Command of PACER, Lexis-Nexis, FOIA requests
• Experience with digital analytics to monitor, build traffic
• Experience with headlines CMS, WordPress knowledge
• Willingness to travel domestically/internationally
• Possess a competitive spirit
• Possess an “on-call” mentality and be prepared to work outside of shift in emergency or breaking news conditions
• Possess ability to travel / operate in the field
• Eager to network out of the office
• Voracious consumer of news
• Bachelor’s degree in journalism or a related field is study is preferred, or equivalent experience
• Possess a competitive spirit
• Possess an “on-call” mentality and be prepared to work outside of shift in emergency or breaking news conditions
• Possess ability to travel / operate in the field
• Eager to network out of the office
• Voracious consumer of news
• Bachelor’s degree in journalism or a related field is study is preferred, or equivalent experience

Qualifications

• Ability to leverage AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, NotebookLM)) to accelerate research, fact-gathering, and story framing in a fast-moving news cycle.

Skills

• Ability to leverage AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, NotebookLM)) to accelerate research, fact-gathering, and story framing in a fast-moving news cycle.

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

$36.06-44.00 per hour for high cost labour markets such as but not limited to New York City and Los Angeles, $30.00-36.50 per hour for all other US locations.

Schedule

2-3 days per week, Shifts available: 8:00 AM, ET - 4:00 PM, ET or 11:00 AM, ET - 7:00 PM, ET