Investigative Reporter (TODAY'S TMJ4)

Employment Status:

Full-time

Education:

College degree in Broadcast Communication or Journalism emphasis preferred.

Skills:

Candidate must have outstanding reporting, writing and on-air presentation skills; must demonstrate an exceptional ability to identify powerful topics for inquiry; ability to obtain, absorb and analyze detailed, complicated information; live reporting skills under extreme deadline pressure essential; excellent written and verbal communication skills required; strong problem solving abilities; high work ethics and standards; ability to meet deadlines and detail orientation; must be able to work odd and extended hours and days to complete assigned stories.

Experience:

Minimum of three to five years prior broadcast experience ...

"Baggage screeners at San Francisco International Airport allege that dozens if not hundreds of bags identified by X-ray machines as high-risk bomb threats are loaded onto planes each day without any human inspection in a clear violation of federal rules."

"In interviews conducted over the past year, six company screeners told The San Francisco Examiner that supervisors regularly clear dozens of suspicious bags in rapid succession with no inspection during peak travel times, a practice they say has gone on for years."

"In recent years, the number of Bay Area kindergartners who have been immunized against diseases like whooping cough and measles has declined. With the 2011-12 school year beginning, The Bay Citizen collected the latest data covering last year from the California Department of Health, so you can see which schools are most susceptible to an infectious outbreak."

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The Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University seeks applicants for the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy, an endowed chair in Duke’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy. 

We seek a person who will help in the development of a growing field, computational journalism, with a possible emphasis on mobile media. Advances in data availability, technology, and algorithms offer the prospect that journalism’s watchdog function may be enhanced by tools that lower the costs of discovering stories.

The increasing consumption of news via mobile platforms, growth of geo-coded data, and generation ...

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Help write the next chapter of one of the great investigative stories in American journalism – in the most colorful news town in the United States.

The Miami Herald’s investigative work has changed laws, led to criminal prosecutions, even overturned a city election. In five of the last seven years, Miami Herald projects have been Pulitzer Prize winners or finalists. In the last year, they won National Headliner, Heywood Broun, SDX, Green Eyeshade and were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

We seek an investigative editor who has passion for and experience with watchdog reporting to work with ...

KUOW's John Ryan reports that "in the past decade, a dozen patients of Washington’s Western State Hospital have killed themselves and more than a hundred others have tried."

"Suicide is the second leading cause of death for teenagers and young adults in Washington state. But inside a psychiatric hospital like Western, patients are supposed to be safe, even from themselves. Ryan looks at how patients fall through the safety net."

Kiplinger Digital Media Fellowship (Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism)

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