Florida Reporter

Job Description

We’re looking for an ambitious reporter to take on compelling stories grounded in Florida but with national resonance, designed to surprise, reveal, inform and bring about change.

You’ll join our team covering the South, and the addition of the Florida reporter to that unit comes at a key time. The state is one of the nation’s focal points for climate change and severe weather, labor shortages and workforce needs, divisive politics and culture wars. We want to build on some of our past work there, which includes examinations of shifting attitudes toward immigration, crackdowns on college curricula, hazardous pollution by the sugar industry (a Local Reporting Network partnership with The Palm Beach Post) and failures to help families of infants with devastating brain damage (an LRN partnership with the Miami Herald).  

The South unit has produced some of ProPublica’s most enterprising investigations, drawing attention to environmental injustice in Alabama, voter registration challenges in Georgia, a crackdown on student threats in Tennessee and the persistence of segregation academies across the Southeast. 

We’re looking for a reporter who:

• Has produced original, investigative stories in Florida. You don’t have to be an “investigative reporter,” but your work should show a dedication to digging for the truth.
• Aches to report stories that are both important and powerfully told, and has a vision for how they’d cover Florida.
• Has experience with or ideas about all the possible ways we can do journalism now, from deep data digging to working with readers to marrying narrative and investigative forms.
• Wants to bring an accountability lens to the issues of the day through quick investigations reported over a couple of weeks and longer projects that you dig into for a few months (or more).
• Really likes working with others. We are a highly collaborative newsroom, both across our team and with other news organizations regionally and nationally. We believe we do our best work together.

This job is full time and includes benefits. This position is based in Florida. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.

The expected salary range for this position is $90,000 to $130,000.

This is our best estimate of what we expect to pay for this position. The final salary figure will take into account a person’s experience, accomplishment and location. ProPublica is committed to paying its staff equitably, and these ranges should not be considered career salary limits or caps.

If all of this sounds exciting to you, you can apply using this form.

Questions? Send an email to talent@propublica.org.

No phone calls, please.

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