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We’re looking for a JOURNALIST. You MUST HAVE successful experience writing news for print, radio, TV or an online news ---------- gree in communications or journalism slightly preferred, and be eager to focus your professional interests in covering local public meetings (coverage of public councils and committees) and other stories in our county in the United States.

We are a “hyper-local news organization” located in Washington STATE, on the west coast of the United ---------- this position you would work as one of our newsroom staff. We have happy experiences with TWO other staff members who are based in the Philippines.

Please read this entire description before responding.

We're seeking someone who would want to get to know everything going on with our local governments. You would develop deep knowledge about these cities and the county -- and some of the personalities around here. This work can be done full-time (40 hours per week) or split between two reporters working three to five hours per day. (Although we might hire two part-time reporters, this is NOT a temporary position.)

You would monitor local websites and observe meetings online, writing stories based on what you see and based on follow-up questions, when appropriate.

We will train the right candidate about where to get the information needed to write stories as well as in our particular requirements. Our stylebook is the Associated Press Stylebook.

To get an idea of the kinds of stories we're talking about, please see the news stories on this page:
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Optional -- Ideally, you would occasionally also edit video materials provided to us and produce brief videos for some stories.

Part of your role would be to notify the editor about potential stories that require local in-person engagement, either by adding them to a calendar or by email.

This is envisioned as a half-time or full-time position. Full-time work would add feature story writing. We're 16 hours behind your time zone. You would typically work Tuesday (our Monday) through Saturday (our Friday), on a flexible schedule that suits your other interests and obligations.

If this sounds like something that would be of interest to you, please include the code “CITYjolt" in the “Subject:” of your reply.