Reporter (Report for America)

The Assembly is a digital-first magazine publishing deep reporting on power and place in North Carolina. We launched in 2021 with a focus on interesting and nonpartisan journalism about our state. We tell big stories, and give our journalists space to be ambitious. Our reporting aims to be narrative, informative and revelatory. This year, we started building regional teams and partners to bring that same level of reporting to the city level.
Open Position

Location: Durham, North Carolina

Beat: Place and power in Greensboro
Position:

Greensboro is North Carolina's third-largest city and is diverse and growing. It touts an unusually high concentration of colleges and universities, including the nation's largest HBCU. It has a resurgent manufacturing industry, including multi-billion dollar mega sites. And it has a rich legacy of civil rights progress. This reporter focuses on questions of Greensboro's future and its evolving identity: What is the city's next chapter and who gets to decide?

Salary and Benefits:
$50,000-$60,000

Medical, Dental, Life, and Disability Insurance; 20 days of paid time off; a $500 tech stipend; 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

Skills: Reporting

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.