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The Raleigh News & Observer is seeking an audience-focused reporter to join its collaborative and hard-working North Carolina service journalism team.  This reporter will be based in the Raleigh/Durham area, a fast-growing metro area routinely listed as one of the best places in the country to live and work. You’ll join a reporting group that is fun, team-oriented and always looking for new ways to reach readers and tell the unique stories of the Triangle.  The service journalism team is focused on utility journalism with a mission to help local readers navigate day-to-day life. Service journalists use an accessible approach to write explainers, Q&As, fact checks, guides, and to answer questions locally trending online.  This reporter should be able to craft stories based on local users’ needs and interests, and to engage directly with readers online and in person.  The reporter in this position will write frequently. They will welcome daily assignments as well as...

The Idaho Statesman seeks an accountability editor/reporter to join its award-winning newsroom in Boise, one of the fastest-growing metro areas in America. Our accountability editor/reporter will spend about 80% of their time managing three to five reporters with a focus on investigative and accountability journalism and the other 20% working on their own reporting projects. Join the newsroom that won a Knight Award for Public Service for reporting that led to a $2 billion state investment in public schools; produced some of the nation’s best coverage of the University of Idaho quadruple homicides ; won national awards for its coverage of Idaho laws’ impact on transgender residents ; and investigated lapses in oversight of the way foreign sheepherders are treated. At the Idaho Statesman, we put a premium on breaking stories first as well as investing in hard-nosed accountability journalism that our audience can’t get anywhere else.  Our journalism focuses on our local...

The Raleigh News & Observer is looking for a breaking news reporter to join our newsroom, which was a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist for breaking news coverage of Hurricane Helene’s historic damage to our state. This rapid-fire beat includes: Breaking news, with a focus on high-impact, high-interest issues and quick-turn accountability. This will include coverage of public safety and courts, and the impact on communities we serve. Trending news, including identifying and reporting on timely stories that will drive conversation and satisfy readers’ curiosity.  The position calls for a quick, confident hand and a curious soul. We need a reporter who can publish an initial report within minutes and then expand while making calls, digging up documents and reporting in person. Just as important is the ability to use social tools, metrics and your natural curiosity to reflect — or even better, to drive — the daily conversation.  We’re looking for a reporter with a knack...

The Tri-City Herald is looking for an enterprising and versatile foodie beat reporter to join our award-winning newsroom to cover the restaurant industry and the food and wine scene in one of the Pacific Northwest’s most diverse and fast-growing communities. We are part of McClatchy Media Company, a digitally driven company focused on innovation, with newsrooms in 30 communities in the United States. At the Herald, our journalism is all about local. We pride ourselves on breaking stories first and producing impactful, accountability-driven journalism that serves our community.  While this beat does include stories about a new place to eat or the closing of an old favorite, we're also looking for stories about the entrepreneurial spirit and the dreams that connect people through food and wine. You’ll also dig into the critical role of our expansive agricultural, food processing and wine industries in developing food products. And you’ll cover food-related topics, such as...

The News Tribune is looking for a collaborative, audience-focused reporter to help us expand our coverage of outdoors and recreation in the Pierce County area.  This reporter will take a unique service journalism approach that focuses on listening to and serving local readers with quick, need-to-know information in an accessible format. We’re looking for a reporter who lives and breathes outdoor coverage, from hunting and fishing to hiking, paddling, skiing, birdwatching and beyond, and wants to give our subscribers expert advice. You will be the face of our coverage, so front-facing video experience is a major plus.  You will write quick recommendation stories like, “Here are the best 5 hikes in December,” while producing a video showing us your favorite part of one hike. Our readers love updated information on their local trails, new opportunities on outdoor recreation, anything related to our beautiful Mount Rainier and much more. There’s a demand from our subscribers, and...

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is seeking dynamic, high-energy reporters to serve the needs of readers in some of the fastest growing parts of Fort Worth and surrounding cities. In a metro of more than 8 million people, these suburban areas are key components of our strategy to expand the reach and impact of our journalism. But don’t think of this beat as a geographic one; your mission will be laser-focused on topics and issues we know matter most to these audiences.   Residents in these cities on Fort Worth’s northern edges are passionate about their communities, which are among the most prestigious in Texas. To the west of Fort Worth, where the city fades into ranchlands and picturesque rolling hills, new development is booming at an astounding pace, including a new university, housing communities the size of cities and a future H-E-B. (Texans love this iconic supermarket chain.) What nearly all these residents have in common – whether they’re newcomers or native North Texans...

The Wichita Eagle is looking for a high-energy, self-starting and community-minded reporter to cover Wichita’s suburbs. This reporter will be tasked with finding topics that people who live in these growing areas care about, stories that affect their quality of life. Those topics could range from development and education to safety, politics and new places to eat and do business. We are seeking a versatile and resourceful journalist who can dig in, turning in multiple quick stories each week while also pursuing more enterprising angles. Story ideas will come from getting out in these communities, not just from meeting agendas. The reporter will be open to using callouts and other engagement tools to hear directly from residents about what they’d like to see covered and will use multiple story formats, including service journalism-style explainers and fact checks. In this role, you will need to: Focus on stories that build readership. Build engaging multimedia...

The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, California, is looking for an energetic, versatile journalist to cover one of the highest-interest beats in the newsroom: how our cities and communities are changing, both at the neighborhood level and from a macro perspective. This isn’t just a business reporter. It’s a person who has their eye out constantly for all of the town-square, on-the-corner stories that directly affect our readers’ lives, because something new is happening in their hometown.  What kinds of stories will this person write? A wide and engaging range, including quick-turn business openings/closings; dining, beer and wine stories; “look inside” features that give readers first, exclusive access; overall growth and development trends; and high-utility pieces that answer reader questions about progress on ongoing, notable projects (i.e, what’s that new building?). We’re seeking someone who can balance the fast pace of breaking news and quick-turnaround stories with...

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...

The Sacramento Bee is building a team of reporters who will serve our existing subscribers and grow their ranks by keeping watch over taxpayer money in the communities we serve, attacking the news of the day with urgency, and working collaboratively with others in our newsroom to amass and analyze data on everything from government payrolls to educational outcomes to crime. This journalist will be someone who is eager to jump on the important stories that our communities are talking about right now – with an emphasis on consistently publishing quick-turn enterprise and investigative work. Are a community’s water, sewer and garbage rates about to go up? Are culture wars flaring up at meetings of a school board? Is a specific neighborhood seeing a rise in crime? This reporter is on it – asking how, why and who is responsible, with a curiosity and drive to connect with readers. You will be expected to mine these stories from a mix of public-records requests, government agendas,...

The Sacramento Bee is building a team of reporters who will serve our existing subscribers and grow their ranks by keeping watch over taxpayer money in the communities we serve, attacking the news of the day with urgency, and working collaboratively with others in our newsroom to amass and analyze data on everything from government payrolls to educational outcomes to crime. This journalist will be someone who is eager to jump on the important stories that our communities are talking about right now – with an emphasis on consistently publishing quick-turn enterprise and investigative work. Are a community’s water, sewer and garbage rates about to go up? Are culture wars flaring up at meetings of a school board? Is a specific neighborhood seeing a rise in crime? This reporter is on it – asking how, why and who is responsible, with a curiosity and drive to connect with readers. You will be expected to mine these stories from a mix of public-records requests, government agendas,...

The Sacramento Bee is seeking an ambitious reporter who will focus on covering daily and breaking news on our busy transportation beat, as well as report and write other general assignment stories that resonate with our subscribers in the Sacramento region. This role demands a go-anywhere, do-anything journalist with a sense of urgency, an eye for trends, and the ability to produce compelling news, features and enterprise. With a growing international airport, expansive light-rail system and miles of converging interstates, news about getting around – and news that gets inside the powerful government agencies that oversee transportation policy – is essential for our readers, as is reporting on pedestrian, bike and commuter safety.  Beyond this, we’re looking for someone who can stretch their wings. When big, breaking news happens on or off the transportation beat, this reporter will play a key role in working with others in our collaborative, award-winning newsroom to swarm...

The Sacramento Bee is seeking an experienced editor who will oversee a team of regional watchdog reporters charged with attacking the news of the day with urgency and meeting subscribers’ demand for real-time news about topics shaping their daily lives. The successful candidate will be a proven newsroom leader, adept at showing reporters how to mine stories from government meeting agendas, court records, social media posts and public records requests. This editor also will put community engagement at the heart of this team’s mission, with journalists hitting the streets, listening to residents and creating coverage that reflects real concerns.  Sacramento is home to about 536,000 people. About 2 million more live within its metropolitan statistical area, including hundreds of thousands in communities such as Elk Grove, Roseville, Folsom and Davis. Four of the five watchdog reporters on the Local Accountability Team will cover at least one large municipality (about 100,000...

The Star is looking for a high-energy, self-starting Missouri Politics Insider who can help our readers make sense of how everyday life in Kansas City is shaped by decisions made in the Missouri state government.  This is not a traditional statehouse beat. This reporter will focus on the people who live, work, study and raise families in Kansas City and how they are impacted by decisions made by the Missouri state government. You’ll connect the dots between state policy and the issues Kansas Citians talk about every day — from schools and safety to jobs, housing and health. You’ll be expected to spend time outside the Capitol as much as inside it, listening to what readers are asking and revealing how state government affects their communities. You’ll find compelling stories that show the real-world effects of legislation, regulation and leadership decisions, and you’ll produce journalism that brings those issues home. This reporter will also keep a close eye on the...