McClatchy
Sacramento, CA, USA
The Sacramento Bee seeks a veteran journalist to show how politics and policies in Washington, D.C., affect Californians’ lives by reporting and writing through a distinctly local lens.
Based in The Bee newsroom, this reporter will cover our state’s Congressional delegation and the recalibration of Congressional representation in the wake of Proposition 50’s passage. But this journalist also will go beyond traditional political coverage, forging relationships with federal workers and everyday people to identify problems that require federal government intervention, report on possible solutions and then hold elected officials’ accountable for fixing them.
Accountability reporting sits at the center of this role. We’re looking for a journalist who can flip the script on traditional political reporting, generating stories based on issues faced by people in our core audiences — Greater Sacramento, the Central Valley and San Luis Obispo County — rather than letting Washington...