Creative Director, Copy
Avalere
Spark
Bureau Reporter
WBEZ-FM 91.5
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Illinois
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💰 $61,200 - $67,500 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Spark
About the role
- Cover the Illinois Legislature for WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times and provide daily news and enterprise work for Illinois Public Radio
- Based in Springfield, working from the Capitol; occasionally report from Chicago and collaborate with other reporters
- Report, write and produce stories for broadcast and digital platforms, including daily news items, feature stories, projects, podcasts, on-air discussions and live events
- Collaborate with an editor and colleagues to research, pitch, conceptualize, report and produce stories
- Generate story and project ideas for multiple platforms
- Participate in special projects and perform other station duties as necessary
- Develop big-picture approaches to covering issues while executing the many small tasks involved in reporting
- Represent Chicago Public Media to internal and external audiences
Requirements
- Understanding of state and local government
- Ability to write and produce stories at a daily pace with skill, accuracy and insight
- Ability to handle breaking news under deadline pressure while balancing enterprise stories
- Demonstrated passion for news and a delight in unearthing scoops, advancing stories, or identifying creative angles when covering key stories in Chicago’s and Illinois’ daily news cycle
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with editors, producers and reporters across the newsroom
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to cultivate strong relationships with colleagues, both at Chicago Public Media and across the Illinois Public Radio system, and sources
- Strong audio and digital skills
- In your cover letter, please include links to on-air work
