Reporter – Darwin

Gazette News; Darwin; Hybrid; AUD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Training and support

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Gazette News in Darwin is launching a new masthead and seeks an ambitious reporter to lead local coverage in Darwin and Palmerston. You will contribute free local news, culture and lifestyle across newsletters, social, video and our website, with a focus on practical information and underreported issues.

You will publish across formats, spend real time in the community, and help shape the voice of a fast-moving, digitally native newsroom with a focus on climate, housing and essential services.

Responsibilities

• Find and report local stories that matter, across news, lifestyle and culture, from everyday community issues to public interest work
• Work across formats, from short explainers and newsletters to social posts and vertical video
• Spend real time in the community, building relationships with locals, businesses, community groups and decision makers
• Shape the editorial voice of a young masthead, and try formats and ideas nobody has tried yet
• Work with our editorial and audience teams to grow reach

Job description

Gazette is a media company building a network of local newsrooms across Australia. We make high-quality local news freely available in the formats and on the channels where people already spend their time, so communities can connect with, contribute to and navigate the big issues where they live. We are fully independent and funded by a mix of advertising, philanthropy and reader donations. Our newsrooms are small, digitally native and fast moving. Reporters here have real room to try things and to shape the voice of their masthead.

The role

You will drive the launch of a new masthead in a new patch covering Darwin and Palmerston. There are thousands of stories in the area, from local characters to the big questions shaping the region’s future.

You will publish free local news, lifestyle and culture across newsletters, social, video and our website, with a focus on practical, useful information and clear reporting on underreported issues: climate and energy, cost of living, housing, infrastructure, education, healthcare and essential services.

Day to day, you will:

Find and report local stories that matter, across news, lifestyle and culture, from everyday community issues to public interest work

Work across formats, from short explainers and newsletters to social posts and vertical video

Spend real time in the community, building relationships with locals, businesses, community groups and decision makers

Shape the editorial voice of a young masthead, and try formats and ideas nobody has tried yet

Work with our editorial and audience teams to grow reach

You will report to Brad Esposito, Editorial Director, and join a team of 10 reporters across nine mastheads. You can see our other mastheads are at gazettenews.au.

What we offer

A full time role with competitive salary, aligned with experience

Best-in-class training and support on traditional reporting as well as video and digital storytelling, from industry leaders and veterans with a track record of success

An ambitious team that values feedback, experimentation and learning

A genuinely supportive culture – low ego, high trust, collaborative and kind

The chance to help define what news can look like in 2026 and beyond.