Political Correspondent Houston
Political Correspondent Houston
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Political Correspondent Houston
Location: Greater Houston
COURIER Newsroom is committed to building an inclusive workplace that values diverse perspectives and lived experiences. We strongly encourage women people of color individuals with disabilities LGBTQ candidates and those from all backgrounds to apply. As an equal opportunity employer we strive to break down barriers and ensure every team member feels seen heard and supported.
Who We Are
Summary
The Political Correspondent Houston will lead our regional political coverage in the Houston area telling important timely and engaging stories about the fourthlargest city in the country. Youll be responsible for producing Houstonfocused media products such as newsletters video series/streams podcasts and social media content that you manage and through which you will personally build trust with your audience.
Through your productdriven reporting you will connect important policy decisions in the city and state to the daytoday lives of our readers. Youll humanize and localize whats happening in government on key issues in order to improve our audiences understanding of state and local politics and government and motivate our readers to get involved.
Thinking beyond the methods of legacy outlets that rely on a broader official media brand you will personally build confidence in Houston communities by being a visible relatable frequent presence in their social feeds and/or inboxes.
The position is remote but the Houston Political Correspondent will need to reside in the Houston area. The position requires some weekend and evening work along with flexible scheduling. The position reports to the Texas Chief Political Correspondent.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop a deep understanding of the mission and core audience for the community and best practices for communicating with that audience.
- Pitch develop and market specific media products designed to reach audiences who arent currently being served by legacy or local media.
- Produce a regular cadence of coverage for your product(s) that is engaging and help build an audience with a product that is created at least once weekly
- Generate multiplatform content for your product in order to maximize your journalisms reach such as creating Instagram carousels for a newsletter or if you do a podcast ensuring its on video too.
- Regularly brainstorm and pitch story and content ideas that align to your products.
- Break news through your products.
- Work to build a personal brand through social platforms.
- Work with editorial leadership to ensure highquality reporting and content is created.
- In conjunction with editorial leadership develop and execute strategies for how to help grow and ultimately monetize your product.
- Attend public meetings town halls political rallies and other events in the Houston area to find sources stories and people impacted by the decisions made by elected officials and government agencies.
- Collaborate with other members of the Texas newsroom including our Newsletter Editor and Social Media Manager our national video and design teams and occasionally with reporters in Couriers other newsrooms.
- Build broad and diverse relationships so that sources story ideas research and reporting reflect the diverse communities of the Houston region.
- Ensure all editorial content such as newsletters videos and graphics are curated and branded consistently.
- Be committed to accuracy and meeting deadlines.
- Participate in special projects as needed.
The ideal candidate will:
- Have at least 13 years experience in political reporting/content creation or similar communications work.
- Experience crafting stories about people impacted by the issues youre covering.
- Demonstrable writing skills with the ability to report through videos social media content and written stories complex issues with simplified accessible language.
- Be comfortable in front of a camera and reporting through videos creating presenterled videos with your phone and writing scripts. Video editing experience is a bonus.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal.
- A highlyorganized resourceful and proactive selfstarter.
- Fluency in Spanish is a plus as is experience in a marginalized community.
- A desire to be part of a new media model that meets people where they are most often on social platforms and looking to leverage your talents to protect democracy through progressive factual relevant information rooted in shared values and well being.
- Be comfortable in a startup environment and nimble to switch direction as priorities and projects.
- Have a desire to grow (or already have) an audience as a political content creator.
- Have experience using Facebook Instagram TikTok and other social platforms.
- Be able to produce compelling social media posts that deliver key information to our audience in five seconds or less.
- Familiarity with tools like Canva Capcut and Descript to support social content production.
- Have a grasp of AP Style.
- Have experience with or a willingness to learn WordPress.
- Have experience with or a willingness to learn Sprout and/or Creator Studio for social media publishing.
Benefits Include
- Salary range of $60000 to $75000
- Unlimited paid time off
- 11 paid holidays plus weeklong winter break at end of year
- Full suite of health benefits
- $500 home office reimbursement
- Flexible working arrangements
Equal opportunity employer
Courier Newsroom is an equalopportunity employer. Women people of color those with disabilities and LGBTQ people are strongly urged to apply. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race religion sex national origin ethnicity age disability sexual orientation gender identity color marital status or medical conditions.
Employment Type
Full-Time
