Local Investigations Fellow: Learn from Veteran Editors

The Wirecutter; United States; Remote; USD 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

The Times is looking for reporters with a local story idea who want to investigate it under the editing guidance of Dean Baquet, The Times’s former executive editor, and a group of veteran investigative editors.

This one year program is for reporters in local newsrooms or freelancers. Fellows will be based in the communities where they are reporting and make periodic trips to The Times’s offices for training and support.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of professional experience as a reporter covering a beat for a local newspaper or local digital news outlet
• Independent journalist or journalist employed at a newsroom willing to provide a yearlong sabbatical
• Significant experience covering a beat and an idea for an investigative story that you have not had the time, resources or editing support to pursue
• Ability to bring a new perspectives to investigative journalism

Responsibilities

• Spend a year producing signature investigative work focused on your state or region
• Under the guidance of editors, learn the judgment, skills and techniques needed to excel at investigative journalism

Job description

The Times is looking for reporters with a local story idea who want to investigate it under the editing guidance of Dean Baquet, The Times’s former executive editor, and a group of veteran investigative editors.

This one year program is for reporters in local newsrooms or freelancers. Fellows will be based in the communities where they are reporting and make periodic trips to The Times’s offices for training and support.