The Standard’s growing enterprise team aims to produce impactful stories that are a pleasure to read.
This reporter will focus largely on public safety and social welfare — immigration, courts, the justice system, and their impacts — but there will also be opportunities to pursue other stories.
The ideal candidate is a seasoned and aggressive accountability reporter, with skills in source development and records handling. You should be experienced with investigative research and techniques, as well as cultivating and maintaining source relationships. You will have the opportunity to develop long-term investigations but will also be expected to pursue quick-turnaround scoops when the opportunity arises.
You should be organized and comfortable juggling multiple stories at once. The enterprise team’s projects are often collaborative, with multiple helping hands contributing reporting, data analysis, and graphics work. You should be a self-directed team player, comfortable pitching original ideas and also accepting assignments.
Preferred qualifications:
- At least five years of experience as a reporter.
- Familiarity with the justice system in San Francisco and other California municipalities.
- An understanding of open records laws and comfort with submitting effective public records requests.
- Skilled in a variety of story formats and writing styles, from quick-turn news to longer and deeply reported narrative features.
- Beat expertise is a plus.
- Spanish fluency is a big plus.
- Experience with data analysis and computer-assisted reporting is a plus.
Please submit your resume and cover letter, along with clips or links to at least three stories you’ve published with a brief description of your role and any challenges you overcame, as well as a brief memo with at least three ideas of stories you would want to pursue at The Standard.
We are an in-person newsroom; this is not a remote role.
The pay range for this role is $90,000-140,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate.