The Tucson Sentinel is accepting functions for a brand new fulltime journalist, who will likely be digging into authorities accountability and social points in Southern Arizona as our Inclusivity, Range, Fairness and Entry reporter.
Our subsequent IDEA reporter will likely be watchdogging native authorities, enterprise and business, and activist teams, with experiences on ethnicity, race, poverty and altering demographics, with an eye fixed to telling tales that may in any other case go untold whereas holding civic leaders accountable, parsing knowledge and telling respectful tales about these typically neglected by different media.
The power to talk and write in Spanish and English is essential,
and we want candidates who’ve images expertise.
Why work on the Sentinel? We’re small however fearless. Our tales encourage new methods of considering, and typically fast reversals by politicians. Working in our newsroom means you may have an effect. We’re not a conventional newspaper, however now we have deep respect for the time-honored ideas of our craft. We’re nonpartisan, and work to report the reality slightly than present a platform for speaking factors.
We’re looking for an modern and entrepreneurial reporter, with rock-solid expertise and artistic, collaborative concepts that simply would possibly break the mildew.
Expertise & expertise
Wage & advantages
We’re searching for people who find themselves self-motivated, detail-oriented,
curious, dependable and arranged. Be able to contribute your concepts and
vitality to our award-winning staff.
Our new rent will construct on the inspiration laid by the Sentinel’s pioneering IDEA reporter, Bennito L. Kelty, who received quite a few awards for his bilingual work. The intersectional beat will method public coverage tales with a view towards explaining the wants and challenges of the powerless, slightly than simply the opinions and selections of the highly effective.
The work of our journalists is usually featured by different regional and nationwide publications, and we collaborate with different retailers on investigative and enterprise initiatives.
“My time with @TucsonSentinel and @Report4America was the very best newsroom expertise I ever had & I’m pleased with it!,” Kelty not too long ago tweeted.
Concerning the Sentinel
The Tucson Sentinel is a nonprofit impartial newsroom that informs Southern Arizonans concerning the neighborhood challenges and distinctive tradition of our Borderlands: “A better Tucson is a greater Tucson.”
Based in 2010, the Sentinel is the one regionally owned and operated supply for watchdog reporting centered squarely on our neighborhood — our award-winning newsroom is supported by individuals who again our mission of deep, genuine journalism that displays Southern Arizona.
We’re devoted to reflecting the experiences of residents who are sometimes ignored by “conventional” media — immigrants, Latin neighborhood members with deep roots, different folks of colour, the working class, LGBTQ+ residents, Native residents, and extra.
We select to focus deeply on issues that matter, particularly these points that have an effect on those that do not in any other case have a full say in how public selections have an effect on their lives. In distinction with different retailers, we go the place they ain’t — solely more and more, they don’t seem to be anyplace.
Among the many founders of Native Unbiased On-line Information (LION) Publishers, the Sentinel was a nationwide finalist for Writer of the Yr in 2019, together with being a finalist for Greatest Breaking Information Protection and Know-how Innovation. The Arizona Press Membership has named senior reporter Paul Ingram the Group Journalist of the Yr, Bennito L. Kelty the highest Spanish-language neighborhood reporter, Blake Morlock the highest opinion columnist for small publications, Josh Pearson the very best neighborhood sports activities photographer, and lots of extra awards. Sentinel Editor Dylan Smith has been acknowledged with the Press Membership’s Sledgehammer Award for exposing wrongdoing by authorities officers.
Along with the Sentinel’s nationwide involvement in LION Publishers and the Institute for Nonprofit Information, Smith is a member of the Rebuild Native Information coalition steering group, and the Sentinel not too long ago joined the celebrated World Investigative Journalism Community — one of many few native U.S. information retailers to be a member. Smith additionally serves as a member of the nationwide Ethics and Skilled Requirements Committee of the Society of Skilled Journalists.
We now have loads of different connections — and we encourage our reporters to construct their very own networks, each regionally all through the business. We have labored with Report for America, the Google Information Initiative, Fb Journalism Venture, the Water Desk, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, the Knight Basis, the Craig Newmark Graduate Faculty of Journalism at CUNY, Columbia Journalism Faculty, the Nationwide Summit on Plagiarism and Fabrication, Democracy Day, As we speak’s College students – Tomorrow’s America, the College of Arizona, League of Ladies Voters, and lots of extra.
The Sentinel is constructed on the concept that correct, related and
respectful native information and data helps residents absolutely interact in
civic life, make knowledgeable selections and higher perceive, critique and
have a good time our various and difficult neighborhood.
Our work has been praised by a number of mayors of Tucson, the chairman of the county Board of Supervisors, a Republican sheriff and Prof. Noam Chomsky. And we have been blasted by a few of those self same politicians, and denied entry to GOP debates. As a result of we’re concerning the information, and fact.
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