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🕒 September 11

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

💵 $75k - $90k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📰 Journalist

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Civic News Company

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51 - 200 employees

📱 Media

🤝 Non-profit

💰 Grant on 2024-01

Media • Non-profit

Civic News Company is a parent organization that operates nonprofit, local-first civic newsrooms including Chalkbeat, Votebeat, and Healthbeat. The company focuses on high-impact journalism aimed at helping people understand how America works and to engage in informed debate and civic action. It emphasizes subject-matter expertise, coverage of key public systems, equality and antiracism, and serving communities overlooked by traditional media. Civic News Company is nonprofit and independent, prioritizing truth and public service over profit or ideology.

📋 Description

• Cover Newark schools for Chalkbeat • Balance quick-turn news stories with enterprise and long-term projects • Hold education officials accountable • Collaborate with Chalkbeat colleagues and external media partners • Engage readers to identify and shape story ideas • Serve as a knowledgeable guide for diverse readers on how education systems function • Develop sources and relationships in the Newark community • Represent Chalkbeat at public events • Produce investigative, accountability, breaking-news, enterprise, and long-term education reporting

🎯 Requirements

• Five years of experience in journalism • Track record of building diverse sources in a range of environments • Expertise in investigative techniques, using public records and data to find compelling stories • Breaking news metabolism and decisiveness • Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion • Passion for education and Chalkbeat’s mission • Knowledge of education is a strong plus, but not required • Connections to Newark are a bonus • Data journalism experience is a bonus • Fluency in a language other than English, especially Spanish or Portuguese, is a bonus • Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance • 20 days of PTO • Paid one-week recess • 5 sick days • 3 floating holidays • 12 paid holidays in 2026 • 401(k) with a 4% employer match, immediately vested • 18 weeks of fully paid parental leave • 2-week part-time return-to-work ramp-up • Flexible Spending Plan for eligible medical or childcare expenses • Annual professional development stipend • Employer-provided life insurance • Short- and long-term disability coverage • Monthly reimbursement for cell phone and internet expenses • Position included in the Civic News Company bargaining unit affiliated with the Writers Guild of America, East

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