Full-Time

CT Mirror seeks an environment and energy reporter

The Connecticut Mirror (CT Mirror), a nonprofit, nonpartisan, digital newsroom that covers statewide public policy and politics, has an immediate opening for a full-time Environment and Energy Reporter.

This beat will be an integral part of our broader policy coverage, which includes education, human services, health care, housing, and economic development, among other topics, and will require a mix of daily stories and deeper-dive enterprise stories on substantive policy and human-interest issues, especially those that would otherwise go untold.

This reporter will be responsible for covering the complex environmental and energy sectors, including the government and quasi-public agencies that regulate and inform these sectors, and the challenges Connecticut faces with respect to climate change. The reporter will also be responsible for covering the legislative session, tracking and writing stories about proposed environment and energy bills with a focus on how they impact the people of this state. We are particularly interested in stories that hold government accountable.

To succeed in this job, you must be able to write clearly, translate jargon and use narrative and other techniques to make readers care. We also prefer someone with previous experience or exposure to multiplatform work, including newsletters, video, audio and other story forms.

We’re interested in candidates who have:

  • A passion for great journalism that covers policy, government and politics;
  • At least five years of experience reporting at a daily news organization;
  • The ability to translate complex policy into readable and relevant narrative copy;
  • A talent for connecting government or system failures to human consequences;
  • An eagerness for telling stories in innovative, compelling ways across platforms and in a way that engages audiences;
  • The ability to work well both independently and collaboratively with other CT Mirror staff and other news organizations;
  • Passion for CT Mirror’s public policy mission and nonprofit ethos.

We do not expect every candidate to be equally skilled in all these areas, and this is not a complete list of all relevant qualification’s applicants might bring to the job. Reaching talent across a range of backgrounds and experiences is deeply important to us.

This position will be based in our Hartford, CT newsroom. We strongly encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Here’s our commitment to the candidate whom we hire:

  • Annual salary of $65,000-$80,000, depending on experience.
  • Medical and dental benefits, generous paid-time-off policy and a basic 403b retirement savings program.
  • Professional development and the opportunity to learn from peers at industry conferences.
  • Transparent internal review and feedback process.
  • Cell phone stipend.
  • You’ll work hard because we’re serious about our mission, but you’ll laugh plenty along the way because we can’t always be serious!
  • We embrace the American Press Institute’s Guiding Principles for Nonprofit Newsrooms.

Please apply by November 25 using this formhttps://airtable.com/appmPgbUU6FJ7IgXB/shraWjet7Hrkh0fN5

Questions? Contact Executive Editor Elizabeth Hamilton via email, ehamilton@ctmirror.org. No phone calls please.

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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