Reporter - Huntsville

About the role

We're looking for an ambitious, audience-focused reporter to cover Huntsville, Alabama, and the surrounding metro area—one of the fastest-growing regions in the Southeast. As Alabama's largest city and a national hub for aerospace, defense, technology, and advanced manufacturing, Huntsville offers no shortage of important stories. From rapid population growth and infrastructure challenges to economic development, public safety, and local government, this beat is rich with opportunities to produce journalism that informs, explains, and drives meaningful conversations.

The successful candidate will become a trusted source on the issues shaping Huntsville's future, translating complex developments into compelling journalism that resonates with our growing digital audience. This reporter should be curious, competitive, collaborative, and eager to build meaningful relationships throughout the community.

Responsibilities

• Deliver daily, audience-focused reporting on Huntsville, Alabama, the state's largest city and a leading technology, aerospace, and manufacturing center.
• Cover the issues that matter most to residents, including government accountability, growth and development, public safety, business, education, transportation, and quality of life.
• Produce a mix of breaking news, enterprise stories, and accountability journalism.
• Use audience metrics and analytics to inform story selection and better understand reader interests.
• Experiment with storytelling approaches and digital formats to better engage readers.
• Cultivate a diverse network of sources that reflects the communities we serve.
• Build relationships with readers and develop coverage that grows digital subscriptions.

Requirements

• A degree in journalism, communications, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience.
• At least three years of professional journalism experience with a demonstrated ability to produce clear, compelling, and accurate reporting.
• Strong news judgment and the ability to identify stories with meaningful impact.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities while meeting daily deadlines.
• Experience producing breaking news as well as deeper enterprise and investigative stories.
• Strong interviewing, source-building, and storytelling skills.
• The ability to work collaboratively across teams.
• Experience with photography, video, and social media is highly desirable.
• Experience obtaining and analyzing public records and data is a plus.
• Adaptability in a rapidly evolving digital newsroom.
• Reliable transportation to meet with sources and cover events throughout the Huntsville metro area.

About Huntsville

Huntsville is one of America's fastest-growing metropolitan areas, fueled by innovation in aerospace, defense, technology, and advanced manufacturing. Home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and major employers including Blue Origin, Toyota, and Meta, the region continues to experience significant economic and population growth. That growth brings important questions about housing, infrastructure, education, transportation, public investment, equity, and government accountability. This is a beat for a reporter who wants to explain the forces shaping a changing community and produce journalism that makes a lasting impact.

Pay

The base salary range is $46,000 to $57,000 per year.