Reporter (Report for America)

Arizona Luminaria is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom that publishes news content with local heart and state/national context. Our stories serve readers who want to participate in civic life, hold people in power to account and understand complex issues. We center our borderland’s diverse communities, providing coverage in English and Spanish.
Open Position

Location: Tucson, Arizona

Beat: Community resilence in Southern Arizona
Position:

This reporter, based in Tucson, shines a light on how Southern Arizona communities address systemic challenges in education, equity, environment, voting and urban planning. Using context-driven explanatory stories, investigations, features and guides, this beat centers on community voices to explore how past efforts have impacted what Arizona looks like today and how people can, and are, participating with agency in civic issues that affect their lives.

Salary and Benefits:
$45,000-$55,000

Language pay, flexible work hours, paid time off plus a sabbatical period every two years, work from home in Tucson, health insurance, professional development investment, technology and work tools investment, co-publishing opportunities with local and national news organizations, systems that build in conversations and agreements about what employees want and need to maintain a healthy workplace culture

Skills: Experience covering the beat

This position is sponsored in part by Report for America, a national service program that places talented emerging journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. Report for America is an initiative of The GroundTruth Project.