The education reporter covers a critical, high-profile beat for the Observer – one that demands competitive, breaking news coverage as well as exclusive enterprise that helps our community understand and make sense of the educational challenges in this rapidly growing city.
The beat focuses on K-12 education – including traditional public schools, private schools and expanding charter schools – but also incorporates some coverage of the region’s colleges and universities.
The beat involves breaking scoops, working sources, analyzing public databases, uncovering trends and talking to real people. The Observer’s education reporter also will work closely with our civic accountability reporters and other McClatchy education reporters in the Carolinas.
This beat has a major accountability component, through public records requests, data analysis and detailed sourcing and reporting. Stories need to go beyond press releases and school board meetings to explain to readers what is driving decisions, and how those decisions affect students, parents and educators.
The job requires the ability to understand our audience and frame stories in a way that highlights what is most important to them. This reporter needs to be adept at using tools such as analytics and social media to help understand the topics that appeal to our readers.
What you’ll bring:
Education and knowledge: College degree required. Beat-reporting experience in a daily newsroom preferred. Prior internship in a daily newsroom required.
This reporter will need to have:
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