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PressProgress
Location: Remote in province, Ontario
Posted: November 19, 2024
Deadline: December 6, 2024
Salary: $50,000 - $55,000
Description
PressProgress is looking for a talented and motivated Ontario reporter to join our team of journalists. This position is based in Ontario and involves producing original investigative reporting on a wide range of issues relating to federal, provincial, and municipal politics, labour and big business, and other important social and economic issues in Ontario.
About PressProgress: PressProgress is an award-winning non-profit digital news organization with full-time unionized journalists focused on uncovering and unpacking the news through original investigative and explanatory journalism.
Our journalism focuses on holding the rich and powerful accountable, exposing unfair and unhealthy workplace practices, and shining a light on hate and bigotry. Several million Canadians read our stories every year and our work has been cited by every major news organization in Canada, as well as by prominent news organizations in the United States and Europe.
About this job: Reporting to the Publisher, the Ontario reporter is a full-time journalist based in the province of Ontario that plans, coordinates and develops weekly content for the PressProgress website in collaboration with PressProgress Editors. This role is part of the PressProgress news team, aiding in the production and distribution of content using a variety of media (text, image, video) and distributing PressProgress content as needed and directed by the Publisher. This position is committed to the growth and brand quality of the website and performs their duties in keeping with PressProgress’ Journalistic Standards and the Broadbent Principles for Canadian Social Democracy. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Reporting: Produces one article per week or 3-4 investigations per month by proposing and pitching original topics, researching, interviewing, conducting fieldwork, and writing and publishing stories for the PressProgress website. Manages time effectively by working on long-term investigations while balancing quick-turnaround stories as needed.
- Story Development: Works independently to monitor news and social feeds to identify potential stories, while working with the news team to develop impactful angles, ensure research and content is original, accurate, balanced, well-sourced, fact-checked, with attention to journalistic and legal standards.
- Publication: Submits story drafts to an Editor for collaborative review, and adapts stories for a digital audience ensuring content is engaging and accessible using a variety of media as needed.
- Audience Engagement: Creates and participates in outreach and marketing plans to sustain and grow the PressProgress audience, including the overarching content strategy and project-specific promotional plans and goals.
- Collaboration: Works with the PressProgress team, including Editors, reporters, and the Publisher, on everything from story-ideas, joint investigations, to short-term and long-term strategies to achieve organizational and editorial goals.
- Source Cultivation: Builds and maintains working relationships with a wide range of sources and contacts, including community members, experts, and academics, to ensure a diversity of perspectives is represented in our journalism.
- Impact and Service Journalism: Prioritizes stories that are of significant public interest, ensuring our journalism engages and informs audiences, strengthens our community connections, and empowers readers to participate in real-world change.
Qualifications
- Minimum two years experience working in journalism
- Postsecondary degree in a field focused on journalism, public policy or communications
- Strong writing skills, critical thinking skills and a careful eye for detail
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced news environment
- In-depth knowledge of federal, provincial and municipal politics in Ontario and familiarity with key figures in the province’s political, media and labour / business circles
- Experience filing FOIs, obtaining public records and other relevant research skills
- Experience with video, audio or graphic design and other digital media tools
- Interest and demonstrated understanding of labour and construction trades sector issues a significant asset
- Fluency in French is an asset
Full-time editorial and reporting positions for PressProgress are governed under a collective agreement between the Broadbent Institute and United Food and Commercial Workers’ local 1006-A. PressProgress operations are conducted in English. Our offices are located in Ottawa and Toronto, although remote work is possible and requires working from home.
The starting salary of this position is $50,000 – $55,000 annually, in addition to generous paid vacation time and a comprehensive benefits package.
The hiring committee will review applications as they are received and interviews will be scheduled on a rolling basis. As per Broadbent Institute policy, shortlisted candidates are compensated for the interview process.
Please forward a cover letter (stating you found this job on Jeff Gaulin's Journalism Job Board), resume and two examples of past published journalistic work to careers@pressprogress.ca with Ontario Reporter, PressProgress in the subject line by December 6, 2024, stating you found this posting on Jeff Gaulin's Journalism Job Board.
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