Environment Reporter – Community Funded

The Columbian, Southwest Washington’s family-owned news leader, seeks a full-time community funded reporter to join its local news team covering the environment. The reporter will focus on daily and project-level coverage of environmental issues in Clark County and the Columbia River Gorge including the impact of climate change on the Pacific Northwest. Regular hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, with the possibility of occasional overtime, general-assignment, and weekend work. The ideal candidate will enjoy both spot news and enterprise work and regularly produce in-depth packages for A1 and online special reports.

Salary: $20.00 an hour

Preferred qualifications include:

A bachelor’s degree.
Two to three years of reporting experience for a daily newspaper.
Demonstrated ability to report and write complex enterprise and project stories.
Demonstrated experience using social media and multimedia as tools for gathering and disseminating news.

We offer competitive pay and an excellent benefits package, which includes profit sharing/401(k). If you are looking for a challenge and an opportunity to focus on one of the key issues of our times, please send a cover letter indicating your salary requirements and online experience, along with your résumé and five work samples to:

The Columbian, attn: Human Resources P.O. Box 180, Vancouver, WA 98666 e-mail: jobs@columbian.com

Equal Opportunity Employer

Pre-employment drug screen is required.