Bay Area News Group seeks a transportation reporter

The Bay Area News Group — publisher of the Mercury News and East Bay Times in the San Francisco Bay Area — has an opening for a transportation reporter to help our readers cope with and conquer a cursed daily ritual: the insane and ever-evolving Bay Area commute.

• Our preferred candidate will cherish exploring the far corners of the region’s multi-layered transit system — plumbing inconveniences and inefficiencies and braving some of the country’s most notorious traffic — whether it’s to document a super-commuter’s trek from Pittsburg to Palo Alto or explain how the region’s slow-to-recover transit systems are confronting the post-COVID doomsday fiscal cliff.
• We want natural storytellers with a track record of developing sources, digging into data and translating wonk into work that connects with a digital audience.
• Show us you are as comfortable battling bureaucrats for public records as you are forecasting the future of transportation in the backyard of the innovators who are redefining it.
• Be ready to prove you know the difference between the Nimitz Freeway and the MacArthur Maze, Muni and VTA.
• We’re looking for reporters with four years at a media organization
• Experience covering transportation is desirable.
• But as the news events of the past few years have reminded us, versatility is critical — every reporter in our organization, at some point, will find themselves in the middle of some of the country’s biggest news stories, from bomb cyclones to raging wildfires.

The salary range for this job is $55,000-$75,000 depending on experience and qualifications. Send your resume, a proposal for a transportation story that we’ve likely never read before, and three recent examples of your work to Assistant Managing Editor Mike Frankel at mfrankel@bayareanewsgroup.com under the subject line “Transportation Reporting job.” You should also submit a copy of your resume here. We’ll be in touch if you look like a good fit for this opening.

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