Guns & America is a groundbreaking new national reporting collaborative in which 10 public media newsrooms will train their attention on a singular issue: the role of guns in American life.

Operating across broadcast and online platforms, the Guns & America team will approach the topic of guns with nuance, accuracy, imagination, and innovative cross-platform storytelling. Expect to see our reporting online and to hear memorable stories on a public radio station near you.

The Audion Fellowship for Journalists

Reporters for the Guns & America project will be selected via the brand-new Audion Fellowship, a first-of-its-kind two-year fellowship for mid-career journalists designed to grow and strengthen public media’s pool of talented, cross-platform storytellers. The Audion Fellowship is an opportunity for a diverse cohort of 10 promising journalists to double-down on the difficult and divisive topic of guns, while gaining professional development opportunities focused on digital innovation and audio storytelling. We are seeking curious, passionate journalists who believe that journalism can transform even the most difficult conversations.

Guns & America and the Audion Fellowship are funded by a $5.3 million grant from The Kendeda Fund. The editorial leadership at WAMU is solely responsible for the collaborative’s content, and Guns & America will maintain a strict editorial firewall.

The Audion Fellowship – Position Description, Application, & Selection

Principal Accountabilities

Audion Fellows will develop and report a new beat on the many ways guns affect the lives of Americans, with a focus on human-centered stories. They will establish sources, conduct interviews, research topics, track down data and produce work that uncovers and illuminates issues with depth and sensitivity.

Reporting Fellows will be expected to spend 80 percent of their time working exclusively on the topic of guns in American life, with the balance to be used for reporting on other subjects, as assigned by the Partner Station. Responsibilities include:

Gathering multimedia material to expand the scope of Guns & America reporting.
Experimenting with media and developing new ways to reach audiences.
Participating in brainstorming, team coverage and weekly “meetings” with WAMU’s lead editing team.
Attending twice-yearly, week-long professional development seminars organized by WAMU and held in various cities throughout the country.

Hello there!

Pets for Patriots is looking for volunteer writers to contribute to our blog.

Volunteering for us would provide an invaluable opportunity for journalism majors to hone their skills and gain real world experience.

What's required?
• Volunteers work from home and claim writing assignments as they have availability.
• The assignment generally includes interviewing a veteran by phone using a series of preset questions but also allowing for conversation to fill in the blanks and add to the story.
• From that interview, the writer creates a compelling story such as those you see on our blog.

Our blog: https://petsforpatriots.org/the-wet-nose-blog/

Syria Direct is seeking an experienced Editor to lead our team of Syrian and international reporters based in Amman, Jordan in our mission to produce non-biased, investigative news coverage of the conflict in Syria.

Position Description:

The Editor-in-Chief will lead Syria Direct’s Arabic and English newsroom. Responsibilities of the position entail managing bilingual editorial meetings, developing story ideas with a veteran team of Syrian and international reporters and fully editing all English-language news items prior to publication. The Editor-in-Chief will also work directly with Syria Direct’s Managing Director to chart the organization’s strategic direction.

Requirements for the position include:

• Exemplary Editing Skills – We operate in a fast-paced newsroom, and most stories are one-day turnarounds. The Editor-in-Chief must not only have extensive editorial experience but also exceptional English writing and communication skills.

• Professional Proficiency in Arabic – The Editor-in-Chief must be able to work completely in spoken Levantine Arabic with our Syrian staff, most of whom do not speak English. Additionally,
the Editor-in-Chief must be able to conduct research in Arabic and translate quickly and accurately from Arabic to English.

• Familiarity with the Syrian Civil War – While candidates are not expected to have a granular understanding of the war, we do expect the Editor-in-Chief to start with a well-informed sense of the history and dynamics of the conflict (e.g. timeline, critical events and major actors, etcetera).

• Leadership Experience –The Editor-in-Chief must have previous leadership experience and the ability to manage a diverse, midsize and fast-paced newsroom. Furthermore, dynamics in Syria are rapidly changing, and candidates for this position must be able to put forward a clear and comprehensive organizational strategy for the future of reporting on the conflict.

Successful candidates will:

• Have the flexibility to work across cultures in a bilingual office;
• Be able to manage teams as well as set and meet time-sensitive deadlines;
• Possess excellent strategic thinking skills and be able to chart an editorial direction for the organization;
• Be proactive, creative and enjoy working in a fast-paced and tight-knit office.

The Editor-in-Chief will work with and report directly to the Managing Director. Syria Direct offers a competitive salary and an opportunity to join a successful and growing media startup.

Applications are due on May 19th, and the expected start date is June 24th. Candidates either must be residing in Amman or willing to relocate prior to the expected start date.

IN THESE TIMES, A FAST-GROWING, INDEPENDENT, NONPROFIT MAGAZINE, IS LOOKING FOR AN EXPERIENCED EDITOR TO EXPAND OUR SENIOR EDITORIAL TEAM. We can adapt the role to the candidate, but it will involve editing ambitious stories that fulfill In These Times’ mandate of advancing social, environmental, economic and racial justice.

As an In These Times senior editor you'll be provided with a unique opportunity to amplify and inform progressive movements at a moment when they are resurgent, and to help expose and clap back against the oligarchs in power. We especially pride ourselves in our reporting on vibrant activism in places the coastal media overlooks, from the Fannie Lou Hamer-inspired black cooperative movement in Jackson, Miss., to the ongoing fight for voting rights in the Navajo Nation.

We’re looking to tailor this position based on the candidate’s skills and interests.

In These Times is an independent, nonprofit monthly magazine that has covered politics and culture from the left since 1976. The monthly print magazine now reaches a record 50,000 subscribers, and inthesetimes.com is visited by half a million readers a month. We're a small but dedicated staff that is deeply committed to our mission. We're also a proud union workplace with an internal culture that strives to live up to the ideals we advocate every day through our journalism. We're looking for co-workers who are comfortable working independently when needed, but excited to be part of a close-knit team that cares passionately about politics and social movements.

DUTIES

Here are the duties of our senior editorial team. We expect the new hire to take on some—but not all—of these:

Editing print stories, including features, culture, dispatches (short narrative pieces), and opinion
Supervising and editing ambitious investigative projects, from conception to publication to impact
Managing the monthly print production cycle: coordinating art and editorial departments; keeping a team of four staffers on schedule
Recruiting and managing freelance writers
Mentoring junior editorial staff
Building relationships and partnerships with other outlets and institutes
Serving as a public voice of In These Times through writing and appearances
The senior editor will be joining a four-person management team. They will have a lot of clout in setting journalistic priorities, steering the institution and shaping our workplace culture.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Base requirements:

Three years experience as a full-time editor
Passion for social justice
Excellent editing skills
Ability to manage others: vision, organization, tact, directness, commitment to ensuring a fair workplace
ADDITIONAL / OPTIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Management experience
Investigating reporting or editing background
Eight+ years experience as a full-time editor

JOB DETAILS

This is a full-time, Chicago-based position.

Salary commensurate with experience and role. Salary range is $45,000-$60,000.

In These Times offers top-notch benefits: paid medical and dental (including for employee’s partner and/or family), employer-matched 403B, three months paid parental leave, 16 holidays per year, and 4 weeks paid vacation.

Start date is negotiable. The position will remain open until filled.

We are looking for an experienced researcher to help us uncover documents, data and sources for hard-hitting investigative projects. You’ll team up with reporters and editors to do the kind of deep digging required to put out rigorous, powerful investigations.

What you would do:
You’ll plot out the best way to find everything that is needed for a story. This could including filing a FOIA request or tracking down a difficult-to-find source.

You’ll collaborate across the ProPublica newsroom and with publishing partners on projects that can take a variety of forms, from newspaper investigations to magazine features to interactives and podcasts.

Corporate power is at its zenith in American society. We’re hiring multiple reporters to help hold ‪those corporations and interests to account.

We’re not interested in you covering the news, at least not in the conventional sense. Instead, at a time when government oversight is in retreat, your job will be to do hard-hitting, revelatory stories about the country’s most powerful companies and industries.

Our interests run the gamut, from corporate malfeasance to consumer flim-flams to employment discrimination to financial skullduggery.

We’re hiring other reporters as well, including ones to focus on technology and the new economy. If you’re interested in those areas, check out the links above.

For these jobs, it helps to have experience covering business and to know your way around a balance sheet and a 10-K. But we love great reporters — including those that haven’t necessarily defined themselves as “investigative reporters” — who can deploy a variety of skills, including data analysis, code and engagement skills to get to the truth.

We are looking for reporters to join one of America’s most innovative (and, actually, fun) investigative newsrooms. We’re not interested in you covering the news, at least not in the conventional sense. Your job will be to do enterprising, hard-hitting stories that make news.

We’re also hiring reporters to focus on business and others to cover technology. If you’re interested in those areas, check out the links above. This ad is for applicants who want to cover other subjects.

We love great reporters — of all kinds. Many of our reporters were not previously “investigative reporters.” What they all have common has been a dedication to digging for the truth. Lots of different skills can be used to do that, including data analysis, code, engagement skills and yes, just excellent reporting skills.

Technology, algorithms, social media and platforms play central roles in our lives. The giants of technology have come to help decide the news we see, the connections we keep and the shape of our politics. They possess vast amounts of data about their users but often haven’t been transparent or responsible in their handling of it. We want you to help us hold them accountable.

We’re hiring a number of reporters to expand our work into how companies and governments use big data and technology to influence our world. (We’re also hiring reporters to focus on the business world overall.)

In our coverage so far, we’ve shown how Facebook has allowed companies to exclude older workers from job ads, allowed advertisers to exclude users by race and enabled advertisers to reach “Jew haters.” And we’ve shown how opaque and unfair algorithms are affecting everything from criminal sentences to car insurance.

It takes specialized skills to explore these areas, and that’s why we’re putting together a multidisciplinary team. Take a look at the bylines in the stories we’ve done: You see straight-up reporters, coders, engagement reporters, researchers, statisticians and more.

We’re open to reporters with any number of backgrounds and specialized skills, whether in data, engagement or something else we haven’t thought of. (Here’s an ad for a quantitative reporter to join the team.)

You should be able to understand complex subjects and explain them clearly and in a compelling way — whether in text or another medium. You don’t need to be a coder, but you should have a deep understanding of how technology works.

We’re adding to our award-winning engagement team and we’re looking for someone to change up our newsletter game, both in products and strategy. One thing that’s cool about this: We’ve never had anyone in this role before, and we’re excited for someone to bring energy, insight and improvements to our newsletter efforts.

What you’ll do
You’ll start by looking at our current newsletter, identifying what’s working and what we need to change. Then you’ll help put those recommendations into practice.

We also want you to think through and launch new products. Should we have a Trump administration newsletter? Should we do more with health care or technology or specific reporters? You’re going to help us figure that out.

You’ll be focused on knowing our audience, creating newsletter products for them and growing that audience and base of subscribers.

You’ll work with teams across the newsroom as well as members of the business and development team.

We are seeking a smart, motivated data reporter to join our award-winning data team in New York City.

Working with other reporters, you'll use data to tell stories that hold the powerful accountable.

As a data reporter, you will:

Plan and execute quantitative analyses — and interpret results — in support of investigative stories and visualizations

Make phone calls, conduct interviews and do on-the-ground reporting

Assist fellow reporters with data brainstorming, acquisition, cleaning, integrity-checking and analysis

Bulletproof and spot-check data work done by other journalists on the team and in the newsroom

Wrangle data, including FOIA'ing for it, scraping it, cleaning it, analyzing it and preparing it for publication

Teach and encourage best practices and newsroom data policies