Reporter, Milwaukee neighborhoods reporting initiative
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About The Position
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is seeking three community-focused and public-service driven reporters for our new neighborhoods initiative, a grant-funded pilot project launching in early 2025. If you're looking for a reporting position that gives you an opportunity to make a huge impact in a Milwaukee neighborhood and be part of a ground-breaking effort in local journalism, read on. With unprecedented grant support from major foundations in the community, this effort will launch in three Milwaukee neighborhoods. The reporters will be part of a team that will pioneer a listen-first approach with a goal of elevating neighborhood voices by positioning journalists as helper figures who will inform and empower residents, amplify their voices and explore solutions to the problems they see. The team will include an editor and photojournalist. Our aim is to add an engagement specialist as additional grant funding becomes available. While reporters will spend most of their time inside neighborhoods, they will have the collaboration and support of the Journal Sentinel's award-winning newsroom to help elevate and scale stories. We are looking for journalists with the ability to work comfortably in diverse communities and for whom no story is too small and no obstacle too big when it comes to connecting with residents and delivering vital information to them. Being part of this three-year pilot project will require a journalist who relishes the opportunity to innovate, experiment and be deeply embedded in a neighborhood. If you don't have every skill listed, please don't rule yourself out - let's talk about whether you would be the right fit.
