Reporting Fellow

Advance Local • Birmingham, AL

11h • $40,000 - $45,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As part of our ongoing commitment to building talented newsrooms that understand
the communities we serve,
Advance Local Media
is offering an unique opportunity
to pursue a paid online Master’s of Journalism with one of the top journalism
schools - the
Syracuse University Newhouse School of Communications.

Through this fellowship program, you will receive real-life experience working
with the Alabama Media Group and AL.com while earning your master’s degree. The
program features a flexible work start date to coincide with Syracuse
University’s online academic term, beginning in May 2026.

A successful candidate will be able to cover General Assignment news in-person,
including videos and live interviews for streaming on social media. The
Reporting Fellow will work a Tuesday – Saturday schedule.

Alabama Media Group is one of the country's most innovative local media
companies -- and operates AL.com, the Alabama Education Lab, This is Alabama,
the Birmingham News, Huntsville Times and Mobile Press-Register daily digital
editions. In addition, the company runs a digital marketing business which
serves advertising clients throughout the Southeast, a film production group
Advance Originals, and the national brand It's a Southern Thing. In the past 7
years, AL.com journalists have been awarded four Pulitzer Prize awards and been
a finalist for another, won more than 20 regional Emmys for documentary work, an
Edward R. Murrow award for podcasting and a Webby Award for short-form comedy,
and most recently won an Investigative Reporters and Editors award for coverage
of the state parole system.

As an Advance Local Reporting Fellow with Alabama Media Group, you will be part
of a dynamic and inclusive newsroom team focused on local journalism for one of
the country’s largest privately owned media companies. Your success will come
from producing news stories for various platforms while meeting audience demand
for immediacy, depth, and engagement. You’ll be supported by our leadership
team, your colleagues, and our commitment to provide resources for your
successful journalism career.

Requirements

• Degree in journalism, communications or other field, with demonstrated communication, writing and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently and remotely, under deadline pressure while prioritizing tasks
• Understanding of news writing, journalistic ethics, and story structure
• Experience with search engine optimization practices and social media to source and promote content
• Understanding of the methods and tools used to deliver content across a variety of platforms
• Understanding imperatives of multiple platforms – print, mobile, digital, etc.
• Relevant internships
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• This job requires reliable transportation to meet with sources or cover events.

Responsibilities

• Help us tell stories through written text and video that go beyond the who and what, to give the how and why that help us bring change to our communities
• Gather information and write journalistically sound news items that are: balanced and factual; timely and topical; and, well-sourced and contextually correct
• Interact on social media platforms, sharing articles, answering questions, promoting your topic and the newsroom’s initiatives
• Bring your unique mindset and your voracious consumption of news about Alabama
• Pitch stories about news, trends and conversations about what’s happening in the community.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern