Service Journalism Reporter

McClatchy is looking for a collaborative, reader-focused reporter for our Northwest service journalism team, whose mission is to help local readers navigate life and the news. This position will be based at the Tri-City Herald in Washington state and serve as the team’s primary service journalist for tri-cityherald.com. This service journalist will report and write to answer reader questions, dig into local curiosities and issues, use engagement tools like Google Trends to surface high-interest topics, and contribute to projects and breaking news coverage. This reporter must be ready to move with agility when the news demands. The successful candidate for this position will be able to take assignments and cultivate and pitch ideas. As such, this reporter must have good time management skills and be organized. Experience with audience growth and engagement tactics such as headline writing and SEO is a must. Expertise in a particular subject area is not required, but the successful candidate will bring a deep understanding of what’s important to local readers, preferably earned by working at a local news outlet.