2024 FRONTLINE/CUNY-Newmark Journalism School Reporting Fellow
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DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW
FRONTLINE is PBS’ flagship investigative documentary series, exploring the issues of our time through powerful storytelling.
We’ve won every major journalism and broadcasting award, including 104 Emmy Awards and 31 Peabody Awards to date. Today, our dedicated cadre of reporters, producers and digital makers report across platforms — from our documentaries to transmedia projects. In an age of 24/7 breaking news, we remain dedicated to thoughtful, incisive accountability journalism.
As a member of public media, it’s a core part of our mission to reflect the diverse perspectives of all of the people we serve, while grounding our work in an understanding of how forces, including racism, sexism and classism, have shaped American life and institutions. We seek both to foster a work environment and to produce journalism that values inclusiveness and reflects the broad perspectives of the American public, from all racial, ethnic, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities and functional limitations, particularly those from historically underrepresented communities.
JOB OVERVIEW
FRONTLINE is hiring one graduating student or recent graduate from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY to work as a reporting fellow for a finite period of one year. This position is open exclusively to recent and soon-to-be Newmark graduates, from the classes of 2022 and 2023.
The FRONTLINE/Newmark fellow will work alongside our filmmaking teams in producing the series’ investigative documentaries. Responsibilities will vary depending on projects in production and the skill set of the selected fellow, but may include contributing to the research and development of stories, reporting out leads, wrangling and analyzing data, helping set up interviews and shoots, as well as various tasks as documentaries undergo editing, vetting and post-production. The bulk of the fellow’s responsibilities will be to contribute to documentaries for broadcast and/or digital release. There will also be opportunities to work on projects on other platforms — including pursuing and reporting shorter-turnaround digital stories for our website — as well as FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism Initiative that supports local news outlets producing investigative journalism projects.
We are looking for a strong reporter and creative storyteller who is committed to pursuing investigative journalism with rigor, thoroughness and fairness. Previous investigative reporting experience is preferred. Experience working on journalistic documentaries is encouraged but not required.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work closely with FRONTLINE's editorial and digital teams, as well as with filmmakers and other editorial partners.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Assist with research, reporting, producing and fact-checking series’ documentary films
Pitch, report, write and produce original digital stories
Coordinate with digital video, social media and other teams on future stories
SKILL SET
Excellent reporting, writing, organizational and communication skills
Facility in data and investigative journalism tools and techniques
Strong news judgment and fact-checking skills
Strong work ethic
Comfort with managing multiple projects simultaneously
Ability to work both collaboratively and independently
Do you have skills not listed above that make you uniquely qualified? Let us know.
ELIGIBILITY
This position is open exclusively to graduates of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. All 2022 and 2023 master’s degree recipients from the J-school are eligible to apply. International students with OPT status for the full duration of the fellowship will be considered.
COMPENSATION AND TERMS
This is a full-time position, with a salary of $64,000 and benefits, for a period of one year to begin roughly January or February 2024. FRONTLINE is located within the office of our parent organization, GBH, in Boston. The 2024 fellowship is a remote position. Fellows who choose to relocate to Boston will be responsible for their own housing and transportation. The fellowship is non-renewable and has a finite duration of one year.
TO APPLY
Please submit the following materials via this GBH portal by October 23, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Applications without all of the following will not be considered. Candidates who do not submit an application and materials via the GBH portal cannot be considered.