Environment Reporter

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🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

💵 $65k - $75k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📰 Journalist

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Spotlight PA

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

📱 Media

🤝 Non-profit

🏛️ Government

Media • Non-profit • Government

Spotlight PA is a nonpartisan, independent news organization dedicated to investigative journalism in Pennsylvania. It focuses on delivering in-depth coverage of state and local issues, including governance, elections, health, and the environment, while aiming to enhance public understanding and accountability within these sectors.

📋 Description

• Cover the impacts of climate change in Pennsylvania • Explore the intersection of a warming planet with land use, business, energy, water, policy decisions, environmental justice, health, and climate-crisis solutions • Balance iterative and feature reporting, typically producing at least two to four stories per month • Identify areas with potential for regular coverage, such as state climate committee actions, climate-related legislation, and Department of Environmental Protection regulations • Propose, conceive, and execute enterprise stories that go beneath the surface • Write with depth and nuance about complex environmental and climate issues affecting Pennsylvania • Periodically adapt stories for a national audience and republish them on Grist.org • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in journalism or a related field (preferred) • Three (3) or more years of reporting experience • Demonstrated news judgment, ethics, and creative approaches to storytelling • Ability to tell a deeply reported, well-written story including data and narrative elements • Strong organizational skills and ability to juggle multiple tasks and deadlines • Enthusiasm about using journalism engagement practices to serve audiences • Demonstrated record of collaboration with colleagues from various perspectives and experiences on team projects • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Ability to thrive in a deadline-driven environment where attention to detail and accuracy are key • Comfort using content management systems, social media, and project management platforms • Ability to respond constructively to feedback and positively engage with collaborative and team-based projects • Digital reporting/writing experience preferred • Portfolio submission and/or writing assignment is highly likely as part of the interview process • Ability to work from anywhere in Pennsylvania

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to execute an investigation if the right topic is identified • Diverse and inclusive culture • Co-funded partnership between Spotlight PA and Grist • Opportunity for stories to be adapted for a national audience and republished on Grist.org