WBEZ-FM 91.5

Journalist

• Editing stories in a fast-paced environment for publication online and in print.
• Coordinating coverage with our topic desks, in some cases making sure a story of interest is assigned, or making reporters available to work with other teams.
• Staying on top of breaking news stories and monitoring coverage by other media to evaluate for potential Sun-Times coverage. Regularly reviewing social media, email inboxes and elsewhere for story ideas, possible sources and other communications.
• Working with our audience team to make sure stories get their maximum readership with strong headlines, internal and related links and other SEO-friendly tactics.
• Communicating with the print production desk to ensure all stories are moved for print in a timely manner.
• Keeping in touch with audio editors at WBEZ to keep up with planned coverage, look for opportunities for collaboration, share sources and cross-post stories.
• Having a sharp eye for spotting typos and holes in news stories.
• Assisting with the supervisory duties of the wire desk, including maintaining our databases and training general assignment reporters and part-time staff.
• Showing mastery of English grammar and AP style and our internal style guide.

Assistant News Editor

Vice President

• Establish and champion a cohesive design vision across WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times, and CPM products in coordination with Marketing’s brand strategy.
• Ensure design excellence across print, broadcast, web, mobile, and emerging platforms.
• Serve as the organization’s final decision-maker on design standards, quality, and governance.
• Represent design at the senior leadership level and contribute to organizational strategy.
• Lead, mentor, and develop designers across business teams, including product, marketing, and circulation.
• Collaborate closely with newsroom design, graphics, and interactive teams to ensure alignment with CPM-wide design standards and vision.
• Build a collaborative, inclusive design culture aligned with CPM’s mission and values.
• Provide guidance, critique, and professional development for design talent.
• Own CPM’s design system in close collaboration with Marketing, Editorial and other stakeholders.
• Own the implementation of CPM’s design system across the organization.
• Ensure consistency, accessibility, and scalability across platforms and products.
• Drive adoption of design tools and workflows, including deep experience with Figma.
• Partner closely with product management, engineering, editorial, marketing, and audience teams.
• Lead design contributions to new product development, from concept through launch and iteration.
• Embed user-centered thinking and accessibility into all design work.

Vice President of Design

• Builds and supports editorial tools and systems for data journalism and innovative storytelling.
• Deploys scrapers, ETL processes and monitoring services to build data repositories for reporting and production.
• Collaborates with reporting teams to identify important data sets, brainstorm coverage ideas and find gaps in project plans.
• Explores and analyzes data for relevance and story potential and creates tools and dashboards to make data and analyses more accessible to the newsroom.
• Helps configure pipelines and templates for presenting data in a meaningful way to internal and external users.
• May pitch, report and write data-driven stories, including visualizations, for wbez.org and other digital platforms.
• Plans and identifies strong data and graphics opportunities across the newsroom.
• Reviews data, analyses, stories, visualizations and graphics to ensure they uphold standards.

Data Journalist, Public Safety

• Provide factual, accurate, fair and balanced coverage of the Cubs organization, including its players, front office and ownership, and Major League Baseball
• Break news, both on the Cubs and MLB
• Write a mix of stories, including “instant gamers,” analysis stories, and longer human-interest features, including features for the Sun-Times’ innovative Sports Saturday edition
• Be the face of our Cubs coverage, both in print and online through podcasts and, in some cases, video reporting
• Work with the Sun-Times audience and visual teams to develop video, infographics, and other interactive elements that engage both digital and print readers — with some of these elements to be used to promote stories on social media
• Use social media to interact with fans, including during games, and to promote one’s work

Beat Reporter

• The Data Journalist is responsible for building and maintaining editorial tools for data journalism and data informed storytelling.
• The Data Journalist works collaboratively within the newsroom to identify opportunities that would be strengthened with data journalism practices or graphics.
• Builds and supports editorial tools and systems for data journalism and innovative storytelling.
• Deploys scrapers, ETL processes and monitoring services to build data repositories for reporting and production.
• Collaborates with reporting teams to identify important data sets, brainstorm coverage ideas and find gaps in project plans.
• Explores and analyzes data for relevance and story potential and creates tools and dashboards to make data and analyses more accessible to the newsroom.
• Helps configure pipelines and templates for presenting data in a meaningful way to internal and external users.
• May pitch, report and write data-driven stories, including visualizations, for wbez.org and other digital platforms.
• Plans and identifies strong data and graphics opportunities across the newsroom.
• Reviews data, analyses, stories, visualizations and graphics to ensure they uphold standards.

Data Journalist

• The Engaged Journalism Team Intern will learn the principles, strategies and tactics that underpin our work.
• Help us reach out to communities, develop creative ways of listening and gathering input from them, and using that input to shape our journalism.
• In-person outreach at events and in neighborhoods; digital outreach in the form of surveys and social media; and analogue outreach, such as writing letters to incarcerated people as part of our Prisoncast! project.
• Involves updating and maintaining the administrative systems and database that form the backbone of our team.

Engagement Journalism Intern

Chief of Staff

• Serve as the "right hand" to the Editor-in-Chief (EIC)
• Manage journalistic content alongside high-level project management
• Act as a liaison between the editorial and business sides
• Track progress on organizational goals and initiatives
• Lead and manage critical, cross-functional, and special projects