News Reporter, Santa Barbara News-Press

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** News Reporter, NEWSWELL
**** Report the news that matters
** You care about the facts. You’re an ambitious and creative journalist who knows how to make calls, knock on doors, interview face-to-face, read documents, and craft a clear, compelling story on deadline.

At the Santa Barbara News-Press, you’ll be part of a growing start-up newsroom rebuilding local journalism with urgency, credibility and relevance. You’ll cover a wide range of stories across Santa Barbara County contributing original reporting that helps readers understand what’s happening — and why it matters.

This is a general assignment role for a journalist who wants to report frequently, improve quickly and take on increasing responsibility over time. You’ll pursue enterprise reporting, narrative features and  investigations. You will also shoot short-form vertical video for social-first stories.

You’ll spend a significant portion of your time out in the community, on the street and in the field, talking to people. This role will enable you to engage with every angle of the local and regional news landscape.

The pay scale for this position ranges from $24.51 - $28.84/hour.
** Location**:
Santa Barbara, CA area

You will be a core member of a growing team working to transform the 157-year-old Santa Barbara News-Press into an innovative digital-first local news outlet. This role exists to provide strong foundational reporting on the most important news of Santa Barbara County and the Central Coast via timely, fact-based storytelling that resonates with our local community. You are here to build the news and information infrastructure for a people and a place.
* Contribute primarily through written text and photos
* Shoot short-form video for publishing across multiple platforms
* Work with editors and colleagues to adapt reporting for different platforms
** Relevant qualifications
*** A minimum of three years of professional reporting experience (or equivalent)
* Strong writing and reporting skills
* Solid understanding of journalistic ethics and best practices
* Ability to work efficiently in a daily news environment
** Preferred skills and abilities*
* * Comfort with video or audio reporting
* Familiarity with digital publishing workflows
* Spanish language speaking and writing skills
* Preference for someone living in or near Santa Barbara
** Benefits*
* * Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental and vision insurance
* 401(k) plan with matching employer contribution
* 22 days of vacation time
* 11 holidays, including your birthday
* Parental leave
* Significant tuition reductions* $30 bi-weekly cell phone reimbursement
* A written resume
* Clips or links to recent written reporting (ideally three-five pieces that together showcase your editorial range across different types of articles, ex. daily news, longform, profile, analysis, etc.
* Clips or links to any video or audio news stories you have produced or been a part of producing
* A note on your journalistic background, professional aspirations in this role, interest in covering the greater Santa Barbara community and why the News-Press would be a good fit (max. 1 written page)
** WHO WE ARE
**** NEWSWELL TRANSFORMS LOCAL NEWS
**** TO HELP COMMUNITIES AND DEMOCRACY THRIVE
** NEWSWELL, a nonprofit based at Arizona State University, provides back-end operations and business strategies to help news sites become or remain sustainable. Local journalists report the news. NEWSWELL offers the support. We don’t just want to sustain local news, we want to transform it. We’ll work with researchers, faculty and students across America’s most innovative university to solve journalism’s biggest problems.

We partner with the renowned Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at ASU to provide learning opportunities for students as well as professional development and a talent pipeline for our newsrooms.
** LOCAL NEWS STAYS LOCAL, WE OFFER SUPPORT AND STRATEGY
** NEWSWELL is growing a network of nonprofit newsrooms dedicated to their communities, made up of local journalists and supported by local community advisory boards. We offer shared services, innovative tools and diversified revenue strategies to help local news thrive.

As we assist newsrooms, we do it with the community, listening, learning and offering ways to get involved. Each newsroom is for and of the community it serves, the entire community.
** WE ARE NONPROFIT AND FOR COMMUNITY
** We are working with three local news sites as prototypes of our transformation process:

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