The Baltimore Sun is hiring: News Reporter in Baltimore

Human Resources Manager at The Baltimore Sun

Job Overview

The Baltimore Sun, an award-winning news organization, seeks a talented and dedicated Reporter to join our growing editorial team. This role will support the newsroom’s mission by developing, analyzing, and creating original news and feature stories in text and other forms. The ideal candidate will have at least three years of reporting experience, a passion for storytelling, and the ability to engage our audience through compelling narratives.

Essential Functions

• Strive to provide readers with what we know, when we know it. Be transparent about sources of information.
• Develop stories, produce or secure visuals, get sources to cooperate, corroborate facts, and present information to readers in the most relevant, interesting way.
• Maximizing audience engagement through the use of various storytelling formats, including photo galleries, video, aggregation, and a variety of layouts.
• Taking the initiative to fact-check, run background checks, and confirm information before publication.
• Delivering on time with minimal to moderate supervision and editing.
• Cultivating beats, where appropriate, and sources.
• Uncovering and proposing exclusive stories on newsworthy events and trends.
• Contributing story ideas several times a week, including identifying and following trends outside assigned beat or topic areas, and informing supervisors of possible story ideas arising from trends.
• Measuring the performance of one’s own digital content through audience engagement metrics and working with the audience team to develop tactics and strategies to build an audience.
• Working with data and visuals teams, as appropriate, to deepen reporting and produce data-visualization content items.
• Participating in production videos and live streaming with the visuals department, as appropriate.
• Professional-level grasp of proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
• Ability to write accurately, with clarity, and without bias.
• Knowledge of libel laws and adherence to the Editorial’s codes of ethics.
• Strong work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit.
• Ability to multitask and perform in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment.
• Ability to work independently when required while at the same time operating efficiently in a team dynamic.
• Up-to-date skills on various digital platforms.
• Familiarity with current events and newsmakers.
• Basic familiarity with analytics and ability to translate data into tactics and strategies, including the ability to use metrics from Chartbeat, Adobe Analytics, social, and other tools.
• Knowledge of Facebook, Twitter, and other social platforms and ability to develop / follow best practices for social.
• Basic knowledge of SEO best practices and ability to research SEO and appropriately populate fields and headlines.

Education and Experience Requirements :

This job may require the person to live in or around the market coverage area. Managing one’s own time and directing his or herself with minimal to moderate supervision most of the day is required.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job and may change at any time with or without notice.

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