Two of my most favorites phrases (apart from “free meals”) are: We’re hiring!

So if you happen to care passionately about informing readers about health-related matters and giving Milwaukee residents the data they should navigate sophisticated methods, then the Milwaukee Neighborhood Information Service desires to listen to from you.

We search a reporter who can dig into points corresponding to town’s ongoing lead disaster, study Milwaukee’s ongoing rise in violence from a public well being perspective and report on how the pandemic continues to disproportionately have an effect on our communities.

The majority of your time will probably be spent serving because the newsroom’s well being and communities reporter. However you additionally may have mini-beats as our newsroom is small but mighty. As well as, you may be a key contributor to Information 414, which delivers sources to group residents by way of texts.

What we anticipate from you

You want to have the ability to join readers to sources that assist them higher navigate their lives whereas additionally making certain that the peculiar people who find themselves doing extraordinary issues locally are coated.

As a result of we serve communities which were misrepresented, ignored or solely get media consideration when there may be crime and battle, NNS has a three-pronged editorial agenda. We have fun the resilience of residents by persistently spotlighting the nice works of our group leaders and organizations. We educate our readers by connecting them to sources that may assist uncomplicate their busy lives. And we illuminate via good shoe-leather watchdog reporting points that create much-needed dialogue whereas holding establishments and leaders accountable.

This job requires curiosity, creativity and tenacity. We search reporters who’ve initiative, resolve and the willingness to dig deep whereas concurrently centering the voices of communities of colour into their tales. We aren’t on the lookout for stenographers who summarize conferences or rewrite information releases. As an alternative, we search journalists who can join the dots and ship insightful tales that go away our readers higher knowledgeable.

What you possibly can anticipate from us

The Milwaukee Neighborhood Information Service (NNS) is a small however mighty nonprofit newsroom that serves town’s Black and Latinx communities. By our web site, e-newsletters and News414 texting service, we report on the peculiar individuals who do extraordinary issues, join readers with sources they should higher their lives and we function a ferocious watchdog for our viewers.

Our readers are our neighbors and filling their data wants is our high precedence. We’re an editorially unbiased undertaking of Marquette College, which offers vital in-kind help and have places of work within the Diederich Faculty of Communication.

We contemplate our newsroom employees to be household and worth collaboration, communication, creativity. We rent individuals for who they’re … and for what they’ll develop into. We would like everybody to win.

What makes an impressive candidate

You’re a superb match if:

• You’ve a demonstrated dedication to using investigative journalism and you reside to develop and execute sustained, highly effective tales that spur reform.
• You might be organized and might deal with a number of tasks below tight deadlines.
• You’ve a collaborative spirit and need to work with a workforce to present central metropolis Milwaukee residents the journalism they need, want and deserve. You consider that we’re all stronger collectively.
• You consider that legacy fashions for native media’s enterprise and journalism are damaged and that new approaches are wanted to serve the general public and our democracy.
• You’ve sharp information judgment and have a report of detailed reporting and highly effective storytelling.
• You might be obsessive about accuracy and transparency.
• You’ve adept interviewing abilities: This reporter might want to discuss to high-level officers and neighborhood residents.
• You’ve some proficiency – or a minimum of curiosity – in working with information and public data.
• You might be devoted to broader workforce objectives. Our workforce collaborates on many ranges, from producing robust visuals and growing promotion plans for our tales to evaluating viewers engagement and internet hosting occasions.
• You’ve robust individuals abilities and an affinity for working with others.

 Audio or video reporting abilities are a plus.

We all know nobody is ideal

We anticipate nice issues. However we all know nobody can have all the abilities listed above. So apply anyway.

We encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to use, together with ladies, individuals of colour, LGBTQ individuals, veterans and other people with disabilities. We consider {that a} newsroom that features a broad vary of life experiences will in the end produce higher journalism.

What we need to see from you

• Your resume
• A canopy letter telling us why you’re the proper individual for our workforce. In your letter, pitch a narrative you’d need to pursue in your first day at NNS.
• Hyperlinks or PDF recordsdata of a minimum of three examples of your greatest work.

How a lot does the place pay?

The wage vary for this place is $33,500 – $35,000 plus well being advantages (https://www.marquette.edu/hr/employeebenefits.shtml)

Have questions?

You may attain out to Govt Director Ron Smith and focus on this place. He could be reached at ronald.smith@marquette.edu

Now go forward and apply

To formally apply, please click on this hyperlink https://employment.marquette.edu/postings/17364