Job Description

Summary/Objective

If you're a dedicated local news journalist anxious to tell your readers what’s happening in the community around them, you may be the next reporter to join the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group.

We’re the Bay Area’s premier news organization, and we’re seeking a reporter/editor to cover the Eastshore area of Alameda and Contra Costa County — spanning a collection of cities but focusing on Richmond and Berkeley, two fascinating, politically progressive communities confronting the challenges of crime, high housing costs, economic disruption and ethnic change.

Essential Functions

The reporter in this job will provide primary coverage for our East Bay Times print and online local reports, but publish also in the daily Mercury News and weekly Berkeley Voice and El Cerrito Journal.

You’ll tap into the successes and challenges of local government, from town councils to school boards, and keep a thumb on the pulse of an engaged populace. Breaking news in these areas can have national implications, given Berkeley’s strong history of progressive activism, and Richmond’s struggles to come to terms with surrounding oil refineries and portions of the city where crippling poverty breeds high crime rates.

Competencies & Skills

If you’re the ideal candidate you’ll have most of these qualities:

• Excellent news judgment

• Strong writing skill under deadline pressure

• The ability to juggle multiple stories of varying complexity

• At least three years of experience as a working journalist

• Regular and reliable attendance is required

• The ability to report in multiple languages in our diverse region is also a plus.

Supervisory Responsibility

• N/
  

Travel

• %

Required Education

• 4-year college degree (journalism or related fields)

Preferred Education

Required Experience

• Three years prior experience

Preferred Experience

Required Applications / Platform Knowledge / Software etc.

Work Environment

• This job operates in a professional office environment and at the Company and client sites for business meetings and presentations. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

• This position may be a permanent remote role.

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms and requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies up to 30 pounds.

Other Duties

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.