Part-Time Freelance Reporter
Description:
- Responsible for original, enterprise and investigative reporting
- Must be able to respond to breaking news on beat and turn stories accurately under pressure
- Ability to travel to breaking news events at a moment's notice
- Ability 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:
- 3+ years 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
- Command of SEO
- 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
- 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
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