Enterprise Reporter

The Enterprise Reporter is driven to inform the public and collaborates with the editor to routinely produce daily and feature stories equally for radio, podcast, and digital audiences. You will cover breaking news, news of the day and independently generate original story ideas through building reliable sources, fact gathering, and data-based reporting. This position will place an emphasis on local, community-based reporting. An Enterprise Reporter is tenacious, organized, and flexible, possesses a “can-do” attitude, motivated to delve into a story and committed to their craft. You are expected to produce and write in-depth stories on a regular basis which means you’re juggling multiple stories simultaneously through researching and interviewing sources, going where the story is to collect information and audio, adjusting your schedule to cover events and conduct interviews, requesting records, working with data, writing stories for audio and web, and editing the story using Adobe Audition. You are also communicating with editors throughout the reporting process. An Enterprise Reporter possesses strong writing skills for audio storytelling and web and has experience using data and public records in their reporting.

Spanish language familiarity a plus.

Don’t meet every single one of these qualifications? Still feel like you could be the right person for this job? Apply! We want to hear more about you and your experience.

Hiring Manager: Christina Lee

Job entails:

Strategically identifying the top issues affecting the Houston region and working with EP to develop daily and in-depth stories for radio and web.
Going into the field to conduct interviews, cover breaking news and events, gather information, records, audio, etc. Write features, newscast items and web copy. Do live shots.
Must be able and willing to adjust schedule as needed.
Edit in Audition, use recording equipment.
Collaboration with station partners on story projects

Salary range: $53,556.00 - $66,000.00

The University of Houston is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action institution and recognizes protected classes of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), genetic information, religion, age (40 and above), national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or status, and gender expression as required by federal law. Veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.