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🕒 September 11

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $65k - $80k / 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

• Report and write compelling local education stories, balancing quick-turn news coverage with enterprise and accountability journalism • Develop and execute longer-term reporting projects that deepen readers’ understanding of local education issues • Clearly explain how education systems, policies, and decisions affect local communities • Hold public officials and institutions accountable through rigorous, fair, and well-sourced reporting • Engage with readers and community members to identify relevant stories, questions, and areas of interest • Collaborate with Chalkbeat colleagues and external news partners on reporting and special projects, including TV, radio, and panel appearances • Build and maintain relationships with educators, education leaders, parents, students, and community members • Report stories that make an impact in the community and drive change • Cover night meetings and occasional evening events • Represent Chalkbeat at public events and on social media

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in journalism • Excellent news judgment • Breaking news metabolism and decisiveness • Ability to produce ambitious, agenda-setting enterprise journalism • Strong interpersonal skills, demonstrating empathy and understanding while being unafraid to have tough conversations when needed • 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 Indianapolis are a bonus • Data journalism experience is a bonus • Photo and social video skills are a bonus • Fluency in a language other than English, especially Spanish, 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 • Civic News Company bargaining unit representation

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