Mississippi Free Press seeks a reporter

The mission of the Mississippi Free Press, a nonprofit statewide newsroom, is to publish deep public-interest reporting into causes of and solutions to the social, political, and systemic challenges facing all Mississippians and their communities. We interrogate and report the systems that cause inequities on the road to lasting solutions through a mixture of narrative storytelling, data reporting, historic context and community dialogue through solution circles in under-reported communities to discover report causes and roots of inequities, followed by solutions journalism.

Open Position

Location: Jackson, Mississippi

Beat: Environmental reporting across Mississippi

Position:

With the help of this reporter, our newsroom will leverage aggressive, shoe-leather reporting, public-records requests, and open-source intelligence, data and historical analysis to inform our readers about the ever-changing landscape they call home. Coverage of environmental and flooding threats and injustice across Mississippi will provide the public with crucial in-depth reporting on environmental issues in the lower river basin, ranging from climate change and severe weather to environmental justice and agriculture, while ensuring that members of the public are at the center of our solutions-based reporting.

Salary and Benefits:
$40,000 to $48,000, depending on experience

The environmental equity reporter will have the option to enroll in our medical, vision and dental insurance policies, as our other full-time staff does. The environmental equity reporter will, like our other full-time staff, accrue two eight-hour days of PTO per month (24 days/year), plus nine paid holidays per year.

Skills: Experience covering the beat

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.

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