General Assignment Reporter

If you cover a dynamic community like Walla Walla, Washington, you become part of the place. You cover the people who live here. You write about their daily lives. You articulate the challenges they face, documenting their victories and losses. If that’s how you cover a community, you belong at the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin. The Union-Bulletin needs a general assignment reporter with an emphasis on business coverage. That’s part of the job description, anyway. What you’re actually covering is a vibrant community of about 34,000 people. Altogether, the county’s population is roughly 63,000. You need to engage people, learn what’s important to them, and use that knowledge to drive your journalism.
A few specifics about the job:
• This job is about living, breathing people and how government affects their lives. People want to know if their neighborhoods are safe, if they can find jobs and if their tax money is being spent responsibly.
• That means you’ll be doing a lot of enterprise stories, which could involve any number of issues.
• And, since this is a collaborative newsroom, you’ll need to throw yourself into conversations and projects that involve journalists who share your same commitment to this community.