Coastal Climate Reporter

The McClatchy Company•Myrtle Beach, SC

46d

About The Position

McClatchy South Carolina is hiring a coastal climate reporter to provide project-level coverage of environmental issues along the coast of South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. The position will focus on accountability stories and solutions journalism, writing stories that hold leaders and institutions accountable while highlighting success stories. You'll teach our readers about things such as sea-level rise, beach erosion, flood insurance and changes in hurricane behavior. This opportunity is a one-year grant-funded position with the potential to roll over. The reporter will work primarily with McClatchy's South Carolina newsrooms in Columbia, Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach and will live in one of these markets. Coverage will include breaking news and mid-level enterprise work, but the ideal candidate will be able to show a proven history of major project work. In this role, you will need to: Focus on stories that build readership Think about audience first and always, with a commitment to tactics that grow readership. Master engaging multimedia storytelling Demonstrate speed, competitiveness and SEO savvy Work well in a team environment. McClatchy Media's journalists are expected to take advantage of opportunities 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.

Requirements

Strong writing and reporting skills and excellent news judgment
Excellent journalism ethics
Understanding of open records laws and the ability to file, manage and oversee requests pertinent to beat work
Ability to ask the right questions and discuss alternatives with a reporter or visual journalist to determine whether a story idea is worth pursuing
Understanding of SEO and other optimization opportunities and a demonstrated ability to learn new skills in social and digital
Ability to correctly identify audiences for selected stories
A strong entrepreneurial spirit, deep curiosity and high energy
A collaborative style that works comfortably across teams spread throughout the office and company. We will work comfortably in a job that will be fast-paced, data-driven, shaped constantly by feedback and experimentation and always evolving

Responsibilities

Focus on stories that build readership
Think about audience first and always, with a commitment to tactics that grow readership.
Master engaging multimedia storytelling
Demonstrate speed, competitiveness and SEO savvy
Work well in a team environment.