Entrepreneurial Reporter

Let’s be real. Local news reporting is not the most glamorous gig in the world. There are bigger newsrooms. There are fancier jobs. But if you want to grow in your career and be ready for the next step, you will be hard-pressed to find a better opportunity. Here’s what we mean.
Welcoming. Can you think of anything more welcoming than a community that loves local news so much they fully funded an RFA position before the reporter even moved in? That’s us.
Entrepreneurial. You’ll learn how to think through new initiatives. You’ll call some of your own shots. You’ll be in a safe place to think big and fail fast. And everyone around you will have your back.
Community focused. You will learn all about how memberships and subscriptions support our reporting and make it possible.
Solutions Journalism. We are going to teach you how to do Solutions Journalism at a very high level and you’ll practice it consistently.
Community engagement. Our readers are sour assignment editors through Open Source, which means you’ll learn community engagement from the ground up. You’ll answer reader questions and develop relationships with sources in a way you don’t learn in J-school.
Professional development. We’re relentless about helping our staff get better and improve through professional development opportunities.
Connected. We count the Knight Foundation, the Solutions Journalism Network, Hearken, the Meta Journalism Project, the Google News Initiative, LION Publishers, the Medill School of Journalism, The Sulzberger Fellowship at Columbia University, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Report for America, the NYC Media Lab, the Associated Press, and many more among our partners.