• File regular daily and long-form news which includes digital and broadcast components
• Engage with the Hampton Roads community to build sources and trust within your assigned beat to ensure a full accounting of the stories
• Maintain detailed knowledge of assigned beat at a local, state and national level to find enterprise story topics and break local news within the beat
• Research large quantities of information on one topic and distill it into meaningful, understandable takeaways
• Work closely with an editor, hosts and other colleagues to determine editorial priorities, share ideas and provide accurate, timely engaging health news to WHRO’s audience
• Contextualize and humanize reporting by seeking out a diverse range of local people to center business and growth stories
• Participate in station events as appropriate.
• Ensure all reporting meets the WHRO expectations of accuracy, independence and fairness.
• Have an interest in and talent for engaging with diverse communities
• Lead occasional training and/or listening sessions for the newsroom
• Available to work varied shifts as required by the news cycle
• Pitch big projects, series and investigations
• Other duties as assigned.

Location: Minnesota, USA

The Imprint, a national nonprofit news outlet, is looking for an experienced, enterprising reporter to anchor our Georgia child welfare coverage. This timely reporting post will provide critical coverage for our national audience. Ideally this reporter will be a full-time employee, but we are open to a contract/freelance arrangement with the right person. 

Our virtual but close-knit newsroom is unique. Reporters working from bureaus across the country focus exclusively on children and families involved with the foster care and youth justice systems, producing breaking news, features and in-depth investigative coverage. We produce balanced, high-quality news that is regularly co-published by other major media outlets. Imprint news articles are richly reported, and draw on our outlet’s deep, institutional knowledge. The published work informs policymakers, legislators, system professionals, parents and youth. 

There has never been a more important time for in-depth, nuanced reporting about the ways in which the government serves or fails to properly serve children and families. Our award-winning work examines the rapidly changing field of child welfare as it addresses intergenerational trauma and balances keeping children safe with the goal of preserving family ties. Each week, we expose harmful practices and highlight promising reforms. 

The Imprint’s parent company is Fostering Media Connections (FMC), a national nonprofit journalism organization. FMC’s Fostering Families Today magazine serves kinship care providers and foster parents. The organization’s Youth Voices Rising program publishes first-person pieces written by young people who have grown up in state custody.

The Minnesota Child Welfare Reporter’s primary responsibilities will include:

• Reporting and writing several stories a month focusing on child welfare issues at the state and local level in Minnesota.  
• Increasing public awareness through reporting on topics such as family preservation, community-based initiatives, legal representation, the role of relatives in foster care, trauma and mental health care, issues unique to Native American and African American communities, and racial disparities in the child welfare system. 
• Working closely with a tight-knit, diverse newsroom in a highly collaborative environment.
• Attending daily news meetings of roughly an hour.
• Working closely with editors and copy editors on each story, which will typically go through several rounds of revisions and must be fully and accurately sourced.
• Producing a monthly Minnesota newsletter with our communications team featuring our work.

• In conjunction with the General Manager, oversees the schedule and editorial content of an assigned shift, program or podcast.
• Airs live and recorded long form events on WCSP-FM including coverage of US House and US Senate, congressional hearings and briefings, following editorial guidelines for proper IDing, presentation of contextual information and scheduling information.
• Writes copy for news breaks, radio programs, promotions and podcasts.
• Delivers live and recorded voice-overs for radio programming and promotions.
• Operates air console during shift, posts podcasts and operates other technical equipment as required including the digital audio storage/delivery system.
• Ensures that the quality and content of radio programming during the assigned shift meets editorial and technical and FCC guidelines.
• Promptly communicates facility/equipment breakdowns and problems to General Manager and Engineering staff. Takes corrective measures when appropriate.
• May coordinate or direct the work of other personnel assigned to shift.
• Produces feature radio programs and podcasts, and manages other projects as assigned by the General Manager.
• Creates and posts social media messages.
• Contributes to long-term planning of programming and/or facilities.
• Stays abreast of public policy issues/processes.
• Other duties as assigned.