Breaking News Reporter
The Sacramento Bee seeks a breaking news reporter who enjoys waking up in the morning ready to pounce on news. Sacramento is a vibrant news town, and this reporter has a huge role in determining how we cover stories in the capital of California and in Northern California. The position calls for moving fast with the urgency required for covering breaking news, and it offers great opportunities to go deep and develop enterprise work off the news. In this role, you get to start and finish.
The reporting is fast-paced, competitive and rewarding. The opportunities are vast, from critical breaking crime news to meaningful stories that touch every aspect of life in California. When big news happens, this reporter not only kicks it off, but also plays a key role in working with a team of editors and reporters in our collaborative, award-winning newsroom. As the leading news platform in the state’s capital, The Bee reaches audiences beyond our four-county metro area, providing critical information to the shores of Lake Tahoe, the rest of California and the nation.
In April 2022, our breaking news coverage provided essential information and stories about a downtown shooting that left six people dead. In May 2023, we broke news, and explained its meaning, on serial stabbings in the nearby college town of Davis, delivering exclusive reporting on the killings and the 21-year-old student who was arrested. These were local stories with a national audience. The first burst of these stories comes from our breaking news team, which provides updates as well as context and perspective. Crime, wildfires, floods — breaking news provides the fulcrum on a variety of fronts, be they criminal justice, health, business, government, schools, sports and yes, fun.
The Bee’s audience includes the half million people who live in Sacramento, a vibrant city navigating the twin challenges of problems and promise, as well as a growing metro area of about 2.5 million people. Our audience craves useful, solutions-oriented information, and this breaking news reporter, working closely with our breaking news editors, stays on the edge of what’s happening now and next. You are part of a team helping to guide a community through change. The Sacramento Bee is part of McClatchy, a digitally-driven company focused on innovation, with newsrooms in 30 communities in the U.S. We are committed to producing journalism that makes a difference.