News Reporter

Charlottesville Tomorrow is a community-driven, socially conscious news organization. We serve our neighbors by connecting them to each other and to the issues that affect them most.

Our reporters dig deeply into issues that affect our community, regularly producing work that highlights issues often ignored by other media. We center our organization and news processes on our values — truth, community, and equity — and we work to improve the health of our local news community and ecosystem through our inclusive practices in hiring, journalism and partnership.

Our newsroom covers the issues that are most important in our community with a focus on race and equity and reaches a large share of our market through our free email subscriptions, news apps, social media and events.

Join our news team

Charlottesville Tomorrow seeks a reporter who is looking to do ground-level work that makes a difference to our communities. The reporter will focus on covering democracy at the local level by keeping tabs on our governing bodies while also helping community members understand how they can participate in civic life. This is not a traditional political or government reporter; it’s a reporter who covers democracy and the ways local governments impact communities in central Virginia. This position reports to the Editor-in-Chief and works day-to-day with the Managing Editor.

We work hard to create a healthy news environment and rethink how news is produced, both for the sake of journalists doing the work and the communities we serve. While we are outlining job responsibilities and skills here, we are looking for someone who wants to join our team to help build on that culture. If you are interested, even if your experience does not match all that is listed here, please apply.

Here’s some of what this reporter will do

Produce one to three community-focused news reports each week (subscribe to our newsletter to get a feel for what we publish)
Work on projects and enterprise-level stories several times per year (see some examples here) including our Voter Guide
Connect with community members regularly, be responsive to inquiries
Work with the team to grow our coverage in terms of depth and breadth
Occasionally take on other editorial tasks, including editing and social media production
Occasionally attend events as a representative of Charlottesville Tomorrow
Help with the overall development and direction of a growing news organization

Please see the complete listing and how to apply at the link below. We cannot take applications or respond to inquiries via LinkedIn.