Reporter (Report for America)

WUFT News is a multiplatform, bilingual public media newsroom housed in the Innovation News Center at the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications in Gainesville. In operation since 1958, our coverage today includes digital, TV and radio reporting across 16 counties in North Central Florida. Our mission is to inform and connect our diverse audiences and communities by producing excellent, multi-format news coverage across our region while nurturing the next generation of journalists.
Open Position

Location: Gainesville, Florida

Beat: Agriculture, water and climate in North Central Florida
Position:

Rural North Central Florida is home to the Suwannee River—the last major undammed river east of the Mississippi; the largest concentration of freshwater springs in the world; and one of the least-developed coastlines in Florida. Agriculture is a major industry, from shellfish aquaculture in the Gulf to a $2.5 billion thoroughbred industry around Ocala to hundreds of poultry and dairy farms and row crops that draw tens of thousands of immigrant farmworkers. This reporter develops multimedia enterprise stories at the intersection of these communities, water and climate change, with a focus on accountability and solutions reporting.

Salary and Benefits:
$45,000-$50,000

UF provides accruing vacation and sick leave as well as holidays and personal leave days and participates in state- and university-sponsored health insurance benefits programs for individuals, families and domestic partners, along with voluntary insurance that includes vision, dental, long-term disability and more. The corps member will be provided a UF-issued laptop and will have access to extensive technical resources and opportunities for professional development. UF offers a wide range of training programs and workshops, as well as access to cutting-edge research and technologies, which can help you to expand your skills and knowledge to advance your career.

Skills: Bilingual Spanish

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.