Pasco and Latino Communities Reporter

Overview

The Tri-City Herald is looking for a collaborative, audience-focused reporter to elevate our coverage of Pasco and our Latino communities. Our coverage area includes the Mid-Columbia and Lower Yakima Valley, with a high percentage of Latino residents. We seek a reporter who can balance daily and breaking news with quick-turn enterprise stories about the changing Tri-Cities community.

The Tri-Cities — Kennewick, Richland and Pasco — is a growing area of about 320,000 in southeast Washington, in the heart of the state’s agricultural and wine country and a hub for energy, engineering and scientific research. Our journalism focuses on local news, breaking stories, accountability reporting, and telling unique stories that our audience can’t get elsewhere.

This is a role for a resourceful digger who understands that building a loyal readership requires publishing consistently and often. You are right for this role if you understand that frequent publishing helps readers trust you to deliver news that impacts their lives and gives them a reason to engage.

• Focus on stories that build readership
• Engage in multimedia storytelling
• Demonstrate speed, competitiveness and SEO savvy
• Use social media platforms to help distribute and highlight work
• Understand and use audience metrics to help increase readership
• Shoot photos and video when needed
• Live in the Tri-Cities

This position will be based in our Kennewick, Wash., office and could, when necessary, involve working nights and/or weekends.

We are part of McClatchy Media Company, a digitally-driven company focused on innovation, with newsrooms in 30 communities in the United States. McClatchy Media’s journalists are expected to ethically harness and leverage artificial intelligence and other automation to enhance and elevate their work and to find efficiencies that free them to focus on source-building and high-quality, deeply reported journalism.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is between $24.04 and $31.25 per hour. Individual base pay may vary within that range depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, department equity and relevant education.

• College degree or equivalent work experience
• 1-3 years of reporting experience
• Strong writing skills, excellent news judgment and a demonstrated ability to “see the story” that matters to readers
• Unwavering commitment to accurate, ethical journalism
• A deep curiosity and high energy
• Ability to build source networks and bring a constant flow of story ideas
• A commitment to diverse coverage through community engagement and source building
• A track record for innovation, learning and using new skills and technologies, especially AI
• Ability to shoot video and photos on scene when warranted
• Comfort with a demanding, fast-paced and evolving role
• Ability to work with data, public records and business reports
• A collaborative work ethic and the ability to communicate easily with people on our team and across the company
• Must have a valid driver’s license and vehicle insurance (at least minimum insurance required for the state in which the employee works)

To apply , include a persuasive cover letter
, your resume and 4 to 6 examples of your best work, showing a variety of skills.

As a journalist at McClatchy, you will join a supportive, flexible, collaborative team. McClatchy strives to be an employer of choice, and our benefits package is designed with this goal in mind. Benefits focus on health, well-being, wealth and daily life, including healthcare coverage for employees and their families, financial protection, wellness resources, and coverage for four-legged friends.

Our overall benefits package also includes a 401(k) with employer match, competitive paid time off and corporate holidays, and a variety of mental health benefits. With strong support and a focus on well-being as a core strategy, McClatchy provides benefits to support you and your family’s health and wellness goals. For more information on McClatchy’s benefit plan, please visit

The McClatchy Media Company features a portfolio of vibrant and trusted news, lifestyle and entertainment brands and a robust retail distribution network. Local brands such as the Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star and The Sacramento Bee have earned numerous Pulitzer prizes and are complemented by Us Weekly and Woman’s World. Our brands reach more than 100 million unique visitors a month.

The McClatchy Retail Network delivers to more than 56,000 retail locations weekly.

Salary/Compensation: $24.04 - $31.25 per hour