FRONTLINE​/Columbia Journalism School Reporting Fellow

GBH enriches people's lives through programs and services that educate, inspire, and entertain, fostering citizenship and culture, the joy of learning, and the power of diverse perspectives.

At GBH, we believe in the advantages of coming together to build community, mentor and learn from colleagues, and connect more deeply with our mission. As a result, the majority of our staff are hybrid and work both from home and onsite. Our current hybrid approach requires staff to work onsite a minimum of two days each week, every Tuesday and Wednesday.

Hybrid staff are also welcome to come in additional days each week or may be asked to come in on other days by their manager.

FRONTLINE is PBS’s flagship investigative documentary series, exploring the issues of our time through rigorous journalism and powerful storytelling.

FRONTLINE has won an Academy Award® as well as every major journalism and broadcasting award, including more than 100 Emmy Awards and more than 30 Peabody Awards. Today our dedicated cadre of reporters, producers and digital makers report across platforms — from our documentaries, to interactives, to podcasts, to shortform videos. In an age of 24/7 breaking news, we remain dedicated to thoughtful, incisive accountability journalism.

As part of the public media system, it’s a core part of our mission to foster a work environment and to produce journalism that values inclusiveness and reflects the broad perspectives of the American public.

FRONTLINE is hiring one graduating student from the master's programs at Columbia Journalism School to join our staff as a reporting fellow for a finite period of one year. This position is open exclusively to soon-to-be Columbia graduates (May 2026 and August 2026).

The FRONTLINE reporting fellow will work alongside our filmmaking teams as they produce the series’ investigative documentaries. Responsibilities will vary depending on projects in production and the skill set of the selected fellow, but may include contributing to the research and development of stories, reporting out leads, wrangling and analyzing data, helping set up interviews and shoots, as well as various tasks as documentaries undergo editing, vetting and post-production.

The bulk of the fellow’s responsibilities will be to contribute to documentaries for broadcast and/or digital release. There will also be opportunities to work on digital stories for our website — as well as contribute to interactive projects or FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism Initiative, which supports local news outlets producing investigative journalism projects.

We are looking for a strong reporter and creative storyteller who is committed to pursuing investigative journalism with rigor, thoroughness and fairness. Previous investigative reporting experience is preferred. Experience working on journalistic documentaries is encouraged but not required.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work closely with FRONTLINE's editorial and digital teams, as well as with filmmakers and other editorial partners.

• Assist with research, reporting, producing and fact-checking series’ documentary films.

• Pitch, report, write and produce original digital stories.

• Coordinate with digital video, social media and other teams on future stories.

• Excellent reporting, writing, organizational and communication skills

• Facility in data and investigative journalism tools and techniques

• Strong news judgment

• Strong work ethic

• Comfort with managing multiple projects simultaneously

• Ability to work both collaboratively and independently

• Do you have skills not listed above that make you uniquely qualified? Let us know.

All 2026 graduates from the Columbia Journalism School M.S. and M.A. programs are eligible to apply. This position is open exclusively to 2026 graduates of the master’s programs at Columbia Journalism School.

This is a full-time position, with a salary of $70,000 and benefits, for a period of one year beginning in June 2026 (for May graduates) or September 2026 (for August graduates). FRONTLINE is located within the office of our parent…