Regional Reporter - Anne Arundel County

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About the role:

The Baltimore Banner is seeking a versatile, ambitious reporter to join its regional team and cover Anne Arundel County. The Banner’s regional team is essential to the growth of our audience and the sustainability of our nonprofit newsroom.

Maryland’s fourth-most populous county is home to more than 500 miles of shoreline, a growing population and Annapolis, the state capital. It’s fertile ground for storytelling and deep reporting. This is a role for a journalist who can break news with authority, analyze trends and connect with the people who call Anne Arundel County home. You will produce stories that inform, entertain and resonate with readers, while helping bring in subscribers. 

What You'll Do:

• Cover every aspect of Anne Arundel County, from its many coves and creeks to the commercial core bracketed by BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport and Fort Meade, home to the National Security Agency, with a particular emphasis on county government, public safety, development and other issues that matter to residents.  
• Spend time digging into the issues that shape the daily lives of Anne Arundel County residents, such as housing, land use and health, to produce compelling daily and enterprise stories, features and investigations.
• Collaborate with a beat partner on the regional team to develop strategies for meaningful and comprehensive coverage. 
• Monitor the news in Anne Arundel County and develop community sourcing to always have a pulse on what’s happening. 
• Collaborate with other teams at The Banner, including the visuals, data and audience teams, to tell stories in exciting ways and maximize audience reach and impact.   

What You'll Bring:

• 5 years of professional journalism experience in a daily newsroom. 
• The ability to write clearly and make complex topics compelling and accessible. 
• A proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment while maintaining meticulous accuracy. 
• Strong news judgment and a keen sense of what readers want. 
• Collaboration, adaptability and enthusiasm for working with teams across the newsroom. 
• Comfort with working nights and weekends as needed. 
• Strategic thinking, strong organization, and excellent planning and time-management skills. 
• Understanding of how to use data, social media and SEO to grow digital audiences. 
• Data reporting skills, fluency in other languages and other specialty skills are a plus. 
• A commitment to journalistic integrity, ethics and audience trust. 

Looking for a way to stand out? Submit a resume and cover letter outlining your vision for covering Anne Arundel County that will best serve subscribers. Include a variety of story samples that best illustrate the breadth of your reporting and writing skills. 

Additional Information: 

• Clips of your work: Please submit samples relevant to this role.  
• Schedule: This position requires travel and working nights and weekends. 
• Location: This role is based in Baltimore, Maryland 

Salary Range: $60,000 - $80,000 Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors including experience, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We constantly review all teammate pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equal across the board.

Our amazing benefits include:

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Human Interest, with a company match
• Student Loan Debt Repayment Assistance for qualified employees
• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HSA., and coverage for family/dependents
• Sick Leave eligible for rollover 
• Commuter Benefits
• 11 Paid National Holidays
• Employee Assistance Program
• Generous Parental Leave
• Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing

Our Core Values:

• Do what’s right. Honesty, morality, respect and the mission guide our actions and decisions. By doing the right thing, we inspire others to believe.
• Work together. We collaborate to create something special. Together we challenge assumptions, trust each other, take risks, and foster transparent and direct communication.
• Listen to be heard. Our stories are trustworthy. They are inspired by and created for our readers. Their story is our story. Communities are at the center of our journalism, and everything we do.
• Deliver impactful results. Acting as one accountable team and driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, we deliver bold and innovative results. We act fast, execute and learn. We celebrate great outcomes.
• Be inclusive. We celebrate the uniqueness of each individual and act by curating a culture that leverages diverse perspectives as the key to fulfilling our mission. The Banner is for all of us.

The Venetoulis Institute embraces diversity and inclusion, and we are wholeheartedly committed to being proactive in inspiring a culture of inclusion across our organization. We are dedicated to establishing an organization that reflects the fundamental respect for different ways of working and living, and we assure every employee the opportunity to reach their full potential.

We are dedicated to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require accommodation due to a disability to participate in the application process, please contact [email protected] to request accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may include, but are not limited to, adjustments in the application process, modifications or assistance regarding job interviews, and accommodations to enable access to our facilities. We appreciate the value that individuals with disabilities bring to our workforce and encourage applicants with disabilities to disclose their needs for accommodation to facilitate a smooth and inclusive recruitment experience.