Environmental Reporter

With the help of this reporter, our newsroom will leverage aggressive, shoe-leather reporting, public-records requests, and open-source intelligence, data and historical analysis to inform our readers about the ever-changing landscape they call home. Coverage of environmental and flooding threats and injustice across Mississippi will provide the public with crucial in-depth reporting on environmental issues in the lower river basin, ranging from climate change and severe weather to environmental justice and agriculture, while ensuring that members of the public are at the center of our solutions-based reporting.

Salary and Benefits:
$40,000 to $48,000, depending on experience

The environmental equity reporter will have the option to enroll in our medical, vision and dental insurance policies, as our other full-time staff does. The environmental equity reporter will, like our other full-time staff, accrue two eight-hour days of PTO per month (24 days/year), plus nine paid holidays per year.