Bay Area News Group seeks a local news reporter

If you’re a dedicated local news journalist anxious to tell your readers what’s happening in the community around them, you may be the next reporter to join the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group. We’re the Bay Area’s premier news organization, and we’re seeking a reporter/editor to cover the Eastshore area of Alameda and Contra Costa County — spanning a collection of cities but focusing on Richmond and Berkeley, two fascinating, politically progressive communities confronting the challenges of crime, high housing costs, economic disruption and ethnic change. Join our team and contribute to the diverse East Bay community by delivering impactful news stories that inform, inspire, and empower our readers.

What you will do:

• You will provide primary coverage for our East Bay Times print and online local reports, but publish also in the daily Mercury News and weekly Berkeley Voice and El Cerrito Journal
• You’ll handle breaking news in these areas that can have national implications, given Berkeley’s strong history of progressive activism, and Richmond’s struggles to come to terms with surrounding oil refineries and portions of the city where crippling poverty breeds high crime rates
• You’ll tap into the successes and challenges of local government, from town councils to school boards, and keep a thumb on the pulse of an engaged populace
• Our news organization has the ambition and ability to tell the story of the Peninsula and the broader Bay Area with the impact it warrants
• You will work in real time, publishing words, sounds and images individually and in collaboration with colleagues
• We serve a savvy, sophisticated audience that includes millions of online readers and hundreds of thousands of people who read our printed newspapers
• Adhere to the highest professional and ethical standards at all times and abide by the newspaper’s written ethics policy. Newsroom employees are on the front lines of protecting this newspaper’s credibility

What you will bring:

• 2+ years of daily journalism experience, preferably including at least some coverage of politics and government, breaking news, business and the environment.
• 4-year college degree preferred (journalism or related fields)
• You should be able to work both alone and collaboratively with a rotating cast of reporters and editors
• Demonstrated ability to write sharp, clean copy that draws readers in, including nut graphs and online headlines
• The skill to mine human sources, documents and data, including a facility for mining public records
• The ability to juggle multiple stories of varying complexity, from quick news posts under intense deadline pressure to daily news stories and longer-term enterprise or features
• In our diverse region, facility with multiple languages is a plus

The hourly wage is $24.04 – $26.44. 

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