News Reporter: for US west coast (mostly 6 am - 1 pm PHT)

We’re looking for a NEWS REPORTER. You MUST HAVE successful experience writing news for print, radio, TV or online news service.

A degree in communications or journalism is only slightly preferred. If you're the right person for us, you're eager to focus your professional interests in covering local public meetings (councils and committees) and other news and feature 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 States. In this position, you would work as one of our newsroom staff. We have happy experience working with seven other staff members based in the Philippines, most of whom have been with us for more than two years.

Please read this entire description before responding.

We're seeking someone who wants to know everything going on in your beats here. You would develop deep knowledge about these cities, the county, and some of the personalities around here. 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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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 a half-time position, 15-25 hours per week. This is NOT a temporary position. The position could expand to full-time for the right candidate.

The Philippines is 15 or 16 hours ahead of our time zone (we are currently in Daylight Savings Time here). You would typically work Tuesday (our Monday) through Saturday (our Friday), on a flexible schedule that suits your other personal interests and obligations. Most of the hours are in the mornings, Philippines time.

Of course, this being a remote position, you would need consistent and dependable broadband internet access, as well as your own dependable computer and smartphone.

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