Reporter (Report for America)

The Public’s Radio covers Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, focusing on local enterprise and investigative journalism. Our newsroom seeks to provide reporting that is focused more on depth than breaking news, offering analysis and perspective on stories we report as well as other news in the region.
Open Position

Location: Providence, Rhode Island

Beat: Democracy and politics in Rhode Island
Position:

This community engagement reporter cover politics through the lens of Rhode Island’s and southeastern Massachusetts’ diverse electorate, focusing on issues that concern voters and non-voters in the 2024 election and beyond. Political polarization continues to play a central role in American politics, and the story of America’s growing political divide is one this reporter will tell locally, through the stories of the people who are at the fundamental core of our democracy.

Salary and Benefits:
$55,000-$60,000

Health, dental, vision and life insurance. Three weeks of vacation, three weeks of sick time, company-issued computer, recording equipment and cell phone.

Skills: Bilingual Spanish, Radio/Podcast

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.

All Report for America Newsroom Partners are Equal Opportunity.