Multi-Platform Journalist

Community-Impact-Newspaper; Pflugerville (TX); Hybrid; USD 45,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Byline visibility

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Medical, Dental, Vision

Career growth

Job summary

Community Impact Newspaper in Pflugerville, TX is hiring a Multi-Platform Journalist to write about 10 sponsored content pieces weekly for Austin, Houston, and Dallas–Fort Worth. The role blends storytelling, marketing, and technology to help stories be found and read across platforms.

You’ll work independently and with teams, ensuring brand alignment, audience relevance, and timely delivery using our CMS and CRM. The position offers a hybrid schedule, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• You write interesting and creative stories with tight copy, minimal errors, and on deadline.
• You take initiative and push through obstacles, helping local businesses thrive.
• You adapt to new tools and processes to improve output and respond to feedback.
• You own outcomes, report transparently, and seek coaching to improve.
• You align with our mission and engage readers with community-focused content.

Responsibilities

• Interview and develop story ideas; conduct interviews.
• Write and balance customer edits with AP/CI style guidelines.
• Assist sales with campaign ideas and craft engaging headlines.
• Collaborate across departments to meet deadlines and solve issues.
• Utilize in-house CRM and CMS to manage workload.

Skills

Excellence & Reliability

Initiative & Enthusiasm

Learning & Creative Problem-Solving

Ownership & Integrity

Resilience & Mission Alignment

Job description

Description

Multi-Platform Journalist—$45k-47k Annually, Top News Organization, Meaningful Work

Do you light up when a business owner tells you the story behind why they opened their doors? Are you the kind of writer who loves building relationships across teams to deliver content people actually want to read?

This role sits at the intersection of storytelling, marketing, and technology—and that's exactly what makes it rare. Based at our Pflugerville headquarters, you'll write about 10 sponsored content pieces a week for all of our Texas metros: Austin, Houston, and Dallas-Fort Worth. In addition to writing, you'll also be at the forefront of new, in-house tech to adapt to changing AI search so your stories can be found, cited, read, and maximized across platforms.

If you love storytelling, want to work independently and as part of a team, and for a mission that speaks to community connection and thriving businesses, we want to meet you! Become an Impacter today!

A Day in the Life

• Interviewing & Source Relationships: Research a business, prepare thoughtful story ideas and interview questions, then coordinate and conduct video or email interviews.
• Writing & Approvals: Balance customer edits alongside required AP and CI style tools to ensure you're meeting the expectations of the advertiser and the needs of our brand to drive results.
• Marketing Ideation: Assist sales reps with campaign ideas for current customers or to help upsell for future revenue, then write in a style that makes readers want to click a headline and read top to bottom.
• Cross-Functional Execution: Work across internal departments to meet deadlines and related goals, plus problem-solve when issues arise.
• Tool Implementation: Understand our in-house CRM and use our in-house CMS and other software to help you juggle your workload.

About You

You should apply to our Multi-Platform Journalist role if you take pride in these work competencies:

• Excellence & Reliability: You write interesting and creative stories with tight copy, minimal errors, and on deadline. You do what you say you'll do—commitments and delivery match, no one has to chase you, and when something is going to slip you say so early.
• Initiative & Enthusiasm: You bring energy and urgency, take initiative without being asked, and push through obstacles instead of escalating them. You build trust fast with people you may never meet in person, and you find genuine satisfaction in helping local business thrive—from your first interaction to your final delivery. Internally, you're a team player, happy to share your learnings and celebrate teammates' wins.
• Learning & Creative Problem-Solving: You pick up new tools, processes, or general change , understanding we're a growing business that adapts quickly to our industry. You bring solutions, not just problems, and apply feedback or borrow ideas to consistently improve.
• Ownership & Integrity: You own outcomes, report transparently, and want coaching to keep getting better. You choose the right path over the convenient one, speak up when something's off, and treat customers, vendors, and peers consistently.
• Resilience & Mission Alignment: You keep your output and your attitude steady, recovering quickly from setbacks. You've read communityimpact.com, you're inspired by our local news mission, and you'd talk about it unprompted.

Why Join Community Impact?

• Have your byline featured alongside our trusted brand in emails, online, and occasionally in print
• Starting $45,000-$47,000 annually
• Based in Pflugerville, TX—hybrid schedule of 3 days in-office, 2 days telework (8:30-5:30PM)
• Paid Time Off: starting at 112 hours annually
• Paid Holidays: 10 per year, plus an additional paid day off for your birthday
• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, and more
• Career Growth: opportunities for development and advancement

Requirements

• Reliable transportation to drive to a local office and occasionally to business events.
• At least 1 year of prior work experience in a role that uses your background in journalism, marketing, communications, English, or similar degree.
• Willingness to follow our company-wide social media and impartiality policies.