| Employer | Verite News |
|---|---|
| Location | New Orleans, LA |
| Type | Full time |
| Apply by | Deadline not specified—Apply ASAP! |
| More details | https://veritenews.org/careers/newsroom-fellow/ |
| Posted on | December 12, 2024 |
Description
The Verite Fellowship is designed for early career journalists who want to spend 12 months learning from a newsroom of passionate, dedicated journalists. Fellows are mentored by our news team to become experts in digital storytelling, social media and audience engagement. They produce real work that is distributed to our readership, and by the end of the 12 months are prepared for the next phase of their journalism careers.
The News Fellowship serves as a means to develop a broad experience in a journalist’s career that will foster professional development within the new media arena. In order to cultivate competencies that are critical to success, the fellow will have the opportunity to be exposed to:
• Working with a newsroom of talented and experienced reporters.
• Pulitzer Prize winning editors that will provide them professional feedback
• Unique projects that will challenge and stretch the Fellow’s skillset
• Learn how to aggregate news responsibly, do original reporting, and build sources.
Expectations:
• Work with a team of journalists who are focused on revealing and seeking solutions to social inequities and racial equality in our area.
• Develop your own story ideas as well as be willing to collaborate with a small team of like-minded journalists
• Get people to talk, finding willing sources and being able to protect them while telling sensitive and timely stories
• Build trust: Many people who have been impacted by inequities in Louisiana have been victims of predatory actions from other journalists or media outlets. This will require empathy, patience and savvy.
• Work with our audience team and data and visual journalists to create compelling story presentations.
Qualified candidates should have:
• A bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications or related field.
• The ability to work quickly, but with accuracy and good news judgment.
• Ability to independently develop and cultivate sources.
• Ability to use social media for research and to engage readers.
• Digital storytelling skills and open mind to trying new approaches.
What you’ll get:
• The opportunity to work alongside and learn from award-winning journalists
• Competitive salary with benefits.
• Use of appropriate technology and equipment.
• Exposure and training in other media of interest.
Click here to learn how to apply.
Deadline not specified—Apply ASAP!