City Hall Reporter Position Available In Penobscot, Maine
Tallo's Job Summary: The City Hall reporter position at The Bangor Daily News is an exciting opportunity for a driven journalist to cover municipal government, breaking news, and impactful stories in the Bangor area. The ideal candidate will excel at breaking news, holding officials accountable, and producing watchdog journalism while engaging with the local community.
Job Description
City Hall reporter The Bangor Daily News, an innovative, award-winning and family-owned digital media company, has an immediate opening for an aggressive and ambitious news reporter to cover one of our most high-profile beats.
The City Hall reporter will focus on covering the municipal government in our home market, from breaking news out of public meetings to reporting how officials’ decisions affect the lives of the people who live here. This beat also includes covering the school department, local businesses and the ongoing homelessness crisis. We are looking for a reporter who can
- Consistently break news on a competitive beat through sources and public documents
- Hold local officials accountable.
- Evaluate the city’s response to the area’s homelessness crisis
- Track the fallout from the county’s growing HIV outbreak
- Produce watchdog journalism on the city’s biggest employers, including Northern Light Health.
- Tell stories about how local government impacts daily life for the people who live here.
The ideal candidate moves quickly and knows how to develop sources who can tell them things before anyone else. We’re looking for someone who can find and analyze data, uncover stories from public records requests and engage with our audience to answer its biggest questions. This reporter would join a talented team of journalists dedicated to producing direct, honest, comprehensive and compelling news coverage in Bangor, our home market. This is a great position for an experienced journalist who wants to live in a beautiful place and do work that will have an impact. You’d be joining a large, and growing, statewide news organization in its fourth generation of local ownership. We believe that there’s a bright future for newsrooms that invest in good journalism and put their audiences first. This role is a key part of that strategy. If you think you might be our next great hire, please submit your resume, cover letter and links to at least three clips to jdyer@bangordailynews.com.
