Students Producer

NEWSWELL at Arizona State University; California; On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

11 holidays including your birthday

Cell phone reimbursement

Job summary

NEWSWELL at Arizona State University is seeking an audience producer to help a statewide investigative team maximize reach and impact. The role focuses on identifying opportunities, guiding processes, and creating internal and public-facing documentation of effects.

It emphasizes cross-platform outreach and community engagement to bring journalism to people. The producer collaborates with senior statewide reporters and local newsrooms, driving innovations in events, outreach, and audience

Qualifications

• Requires journalism background or related field with experience in audience engagement or outreach.
• Experience coordinating multi-month investigations and coordinating with diverse teams.
• Familiarity with impact-driven, cross-platform storytelling and newsroom collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Support and amplify the process of conceiving, developing and producing investigative and accountability reporting.
• Build systems to help deliver exclusive findings and measure or track civic impact.
• Mentor and coach local newsrooms and collaborate on local reporting.
• Use multiple digital publishing formats when appropriate.
• Support and help lead community forums and partner events; Pilot new tools, including responsible AI, to enhance research, document analysis and workflow efficiency.
• Partner with ASU's Walter Cronkite School and other academic institutions to create student engagement opportunities.

Skills

Audience engagement

Cross-platform outreach

Community events

Digital publishing

SEO writing

Project management

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in journalism

Tools

CMS platforms

Social media management tools

Job description

An audience producer at NEWSWELL will help a new statewide investigative team maximize the reach and impact of our most significant journalism. This producer will help identify opportunities for impact, guide the processes to get there and build internal tracking and public-facing documentation about the effects of our work. This role will also help us promote and publicize the work itself.

In short, this job takes the journalism to the people.

This producer should come with a journalism background that may include reporting, editing or multimedia work, and should bring a deep familiarity with the ideas of impact and cross-platform outreach. More importantly, this staffer will bring fresh ideas about how our unique regional or statewide reporting can be of service to our local audiences.

This producer will collaborate with the team's senior statewide reporter, other team members and NEWSWELL's local newsrooms, and should bring the sensibility of an innovator, teacher and collaborator to the role.

The role may involve a variety of content creation and audience interaction work, such as:

• Writing stories directly related at solutions or outcomes from our reporting
• Creating or managing graphics, databases, printed materials or other items that help connect audiences with our work
• Seeking out stakeholders or potential new audiences and conducting outreach to connect them with our work
• Brainstorming, organizing and executing community events, speaker forums, demonstrations or other public events

The role is part of a new standalone investigative team that serves the Western newsrooms in NEWSWELL's nonprofit collective.

Everything we publish should also be in pursuit of strengthening audience ties to our newsroom, through two-way dialogue, public events, uses of new platforms or other methods to demonstrate public outreach.

NEWSWELL helps newsrooms become nonprofit and for-community, providing strategic guidance, innovative solutions and operational support so journalists can focus on what matters most: serving their communities. Through partnerships with Arizona State University - named the nation's most innovative university for 11 years in a row - NEWSWELL brings cutting-edge ideas, research and tools to reinvent local news and strengthen democracy.

This new team's work is designed to leverage and grow that support, so that we can grow and transform local journalism.

A sampling of your audience connection experience, which might include things such as: a collection of social media posts with a document explaining strategy; a highlights reel or set of video samples; stories, blog posts, newsletters or other published material you wrote that supported audience engagement or promoted journalism impact.

• Support and amplify the process of conceiving, developing and producing investigative and accountability reporting.
• Build systems to help deliver exclusive findings and measure or track civic impact.
• Mentor and coach local newsrooms and collaborate on local reporting.
• Use multiple digital publishing formats when appropriate.
• Support and help lead community forums and partner events; Pilot new tools, including responsible AI, to enhance research, document analysis and workflow efficiency.
• Partner with ASU's Walter Cronkite School and other academic institutions to create strong student engagement opportunities, including reporting, learning experiences and newsroom collaboration.
• Contribute to an inclusive, collaborative newsroom culture that values transparency, fairness, equity and community impact.
• strong organization and project management across multi-month investigations and faster accountability hits.
• Digital fluency: SEO-aware writing, smart packaging, social and audience collaboration to maximize reach and comprehension.
• Risk awareness: awareness of legal, safety and trauma-informed practices, or intense focus on learning.
• commitment to fairness, accuracy, inclusion and community-centered journalism.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in journalism or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Deep familiarity with how to reach people across platforms - web, social, direct outreach, nontraditional forms.
• Experience in visual production, shooting or producing your own images, video, social media content or work on other platforms beyond written stories.
• Experience reporting, editing or producing in California and the West.
• On-camera experience or video production
• Events planning and management

• Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• ~11 holidays, including your birthday
• ~ 30 bi-weekly cell phone reimbursement