The Post and Courier is hiring : Rising Waters Reporter in Charleston

Overview

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The Post and Courier, the premier news source for South Carolina, is seeking an energetic, driven reporter to join our award-winning Rising Waters Lab. The Rising Waters team, composed of two reporters and an editor, focuses primarily on mounting threats from rising seawater and other climate-driven impacts along coastal South Carolina, with a particular emphasis on Charleston and the Lowcountry. The team also reports news from other regions in the state as needed.

Our coverage is ambitious and is deeply connected to the people whose lives are being shaped in immediate and long-term ways by climate change. Flooding, hurricanes and other threats are becoming a more common and a grave concern for coastal residents and inland residents, too. The Rising Waters coverage has included stories on development and preservation tensions, marsh loss and coastal resilience, and increasingly flood-prone communities and river systems.

If you are creative with ideas on a beat, write powerfully and know how to translate science into stories that don’t bore, then you have the starting point for what we’re seeking in this role. You must be able to produce a steady flow of quick-turn enterprise stories, with daily coverage of in-the-moment news when needed, and be able to work with your team to develop longer-range projects that we work on over time. We want high-impact stories and value ambitious journalism, but the primary focus of the job is on quicker enterprise.

Day-to-day reporting duties include writing stories about flooding, infrastructure challenges, resiliency and sustainability and their obstacles, green architecture and design, habitat loss, impacts on endangered species, and conservation efforts. Stories should emphasize human experiences, showing the connections between climate change and how people live.

We look for journalists who bring passion to their work and are easy to work with team players who are eager to collaborate. You should know that metrics matter in a journalist’s work. You must embrace the importance of creating high-quality content that attracts, grows and retains a digital audience.

The Rising Waters Lab is funded through our Public Service and Investigative fund, a nonprofit arm of The Post and Courier that is supported by donations from readers and endowments funds.

If you’re hired, you will join an ambitious, Pulitzer Prize–winning environment where talented journalists have the opportunity to pursue the best work of their careers, limited only by their ambition and determination. The Post and Courier is privately held and is investing in journalism, with a network of newsrooms across South Carolina.

We are a passionate, dedicated, digital-driven organization and seek someone who shares that journalistic passion and commitment to excellence.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Digital skills : Must work effectively in a digital-focused news operation, with emphasis on compelling content, SEO tactics, and promoting work on social platforms.
• Accuracy and ethics : Produce work that is accurate and fair. Understand libel and privacy issues.
• Communication : Works well with editors and reporters across disciplines. Discusses original and assigned story ideas. Participates in brainstorming sessions to develop detailed and realistic story ideas.
• Organizational skills : Develops a systematic approach to managing a beat and meeting deadlines.
• Creative mindset : Develops smart, engaging story ideas and varied approaches to telling stories beyond traditional formats.
• Flexibility : Reacts to change productively and handles other duties as assigned.

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