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Job posting: Health/Science reporter

The Washington Post is seeking a reporter to cover disparities in health care and science, the impact of structural and interpersonal racism on health, and the sociology and psychology of racism and its effects.

This reporter will roam broadly across disciplines to explore everything from the fight to diversify the inner sanctums of science to the conditions that leave minority communities uniquely susceptible to the worst effects of covid-19. We want someone who will build a diverse roster of sources in pursuit of scoops, investigative targets and compelling narratives. Successful candidates will be able to write quickly and authoritatively when big stories break, and have an established record of producing compelling, agenda-setting enterprise.

The ability to work collegially and effectively with others is essential as this reporter will be expected to routinely team up with other reporters to tell stories through words, video, photographs and graphics. Experience identifying and analyzing newsworthy data sets is preferred. A willingness to travel, often at short notice, is required. Proficiency in foreign languages, particularly Spanish, is a plus.

Candidates should upload a cover letter outlining a vision for the role, along with a resume and three clips (as PDFs) to our jobs portal by July 10. All of your application materials can be uploaded to the same field. The cover letter should be addressed to Tracy Grant, Steven Ginsberg, Lori Montgomery and Carol Eisenberg.

Job posting: Domestic terrorism reporter

The Washington Post is looking for a reporter to cover domestic terrorism, extremism and white nationalism; its infiltration of U.S. institutions; and its international links and support. This is a high-profile and demanding position that requires the investigative skills to dig deeply into a hostile world and the writing skill to deliver compelling narratives. It also requires impeccable news judgment and the toughness to endure the inevitable abuse that often flows from examining hate groups.

The ability to work collegially and effectively with others is essential as the reporter will be expected to routinely team up with reporters across the newsroom to tell stories through words, video, photographs, data and graphics. Experience covering the far-right and working abroad is welcome but not essential. Any candidate should have a distinguished record of producing exclusive, agenda-setting journalism. A willingness to travel, often at short notice and sometimes for prolonged periods, is required.

Job posting: Criminal Justice reporter

The Washington Post is looking for a reporter to cover the administration of justice in the United States, from policing to prison to parole.

This beat will encompass police reforms being debated in Congress and in cities across the nation, trends in incarceration at the state and federal levels, and the experiences of people caught up in the criminal justice system. We want someone who can work sources aggressively in pursuit of scoops, investigative opportunities and compelling narratives, and write news quickly and authoritatively when big stories break. Successful candidates will have an established record of producing aggressive, enterprising accountability journalism.

The ability to work collegially and effectively with others is essential as the reporter will be expected to routinely team up with reporters across the newsroom to tell stories through words, video, photographs, graphics and data. Experience covering criminal justice is a plus, but not essential. A willingness to travel, often at short notice and sometimes for prolonged periods, is required.

Job posting: About US newsletter writer

The Washington Post is looking for a writer to produce reported stories and engaging essays for About US, its twice-weekly newsletter exploring issues of race and identity in the United States.

Under lead writer Vanessa Williams, the newsletter strives to spark honest conversations about race, gender, sexual orientation and other matters of identity, often keying off news of the day. The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated interest in matters related to identity, and the ability to write with voice in clean, sophisticated and engaging prose. A broad familiarity with thought leaders in this space is essential, as this writer will be responsible for developing creative ideas to keep the newsletter at the forefront of the national conversation. In addition to direct contributions, this writer will assist in developing feature ideas, identifying new and diverse contributors and handling newsletter production.

Job posting: Multiculturalism reporter

The Washington Post is looking for a reporter to explore the political and cultural implications of the nation's emergence as a predominantly multicultural society.

The beat will chronicle how America is preparing for and responding to its increasingly diverse population, covering such topics as white identity and grievance, the influences and experiences of its growing Asian and Latino communities, and the power shifts and culture clashes that arise in places undergoing rapid demographic change. The ideal candidate will have a track record of covering disparate communities with depth and nuance, as well as a demonstrated skill for conceiving ambitious, timely and authoritative enterprise that drives the national conversation.

The ability to work collegially and effectively with others is essential as the reporter will be expected to routinely team up with reporters in other coverage areas to tell stories through words, video, photographs, data and graphics. Experience identifying and analyzing newsworthy data sets is preferred. A willingness to travel, often at short notice and for prolonged periods, is required. Proficiency in foreign languages, particularly Spanish, is a plus.

Job posting: Race and ethnicity reporter

The Washington Post is seeking a versatile and accomplished reporter to tell the story of race and ethnicity in America, diving deep into social movements, investigating policy disparities old and new, and exploring the effects of racial violence and discrimination on American culture. This reporter will play a leading role in The Post’s expansion of this coverage area.

We want someone who will aggressively develop sources in pursuit of scoops, investigative targets and narrative opportunities, and who can write quickly and cogently when big stories break. Successful candidates will have the speed and insight to identify how race plays into the news of the day, as well as the foresight to conceive definitive stories on emerging trends and write them with sweep and authority. The ideal candidate will have a track record of producing exclusive, agenda-setting enterprise on race in America.

The ability to work collegially and effectively with others is essential as the reporter will be expected to routinely team up with reporters in other coverage areas to tell stories through words, video, photographs, data and graphics. A willingness to travel, often at short notice and sometimes for prolonged periods, is required. Proficiency in foreign languages, particularly Spanish, is a plus.

Job posting: America Desk deputy editor

During this period of rapid social and political change, when our coverage of race, multiculturalism and identity is expanding, The Washington Post is looking for an assignment editor to join the America desk and help lead this important journalism.

The ideal candidate will have experience leading teams of reporters at various skill levels, as well as the ability to juggle daily news with ambitious enterprise. The America desk has a strong breaking-news mission, so applicants should also have a track record of deploying reporters on breaking stories and delivering crisp prose on deadline. This editor also will help oversee About US, a twice-weekly newsletter dedicated to sparking honest conversations about race, gender, sexual orientation, and other matters of identity.

The ability to work collegially and effectively with others is essential: This editor will be part of a three-person editing team, and will be expected to collaborate with journalists across the newsroom to tell stories through words, video, photographs, data and graphics. The position is based in Washington.

Candidates should upload a cover letter outlining a vision for the role, along with a resume and three clips (as PDFs) demonstrating editing ability to our jobs portal by July 10. All of your application materials can be uploaded to the same field. The cover letter should be addressed to Tracy Grant, Steven Ginsberg, Lori Montgomery and Josh White.

Job posting: Managing Editor for Diversity and Inclusion

The Washington Post is seeking a managing editor for diversity and inclusion who, working closely with senior editors and our entire staff, will endeavor to ensure that those principles are incorporated into all aspects of news coverage and operations.

The responsibilities will include greater diversity in our recruitment; full participation with other senior editors in final hiring and promotion decisions; acting as a convener of discussions across departments regarding coverage of race and identity; more inclusiveness in our coverage of people with different life experiences and perspectives; review of stories that involve sensitive subjects of race, ethnicity and identity; and listening to staff concerns on these issues and sharing them with others in the newsroom’s senior leadership.

This individual will join three other managing editors and the executive editor in holding the top positions in The Post’s newsroom. We envision a high level of collaboration within that leadership group.

We are looking for an individual with a deep and distinguished background in news coverage, management experience in a newsroom, demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion, strong listening and communication skills and a facility and enthusiasm for spotting talented journalists for recruitment and hiring.

Those interested should send Marty Baron, executive editor, ([email protected]) a resumé and cover letter outlining a vision for this position. The deadline for applications is July 3.

Job posting: Staff Photojournalist for Race and Identity

The Washington Post is seeking a staff photojournalist to join our award-winning team of journalists who find new and compelling ways to tell visual stories.

This staff photojournalist will conceive, research and develop assignments related to issues of race and identity in this historic moment and over the long term. This photojournalist will have a minimum of 3-5 years of experience, superior news judgment and excellent visual storytelling skills. A commitment to covering issues of race and identity is essential, as is experience working in protest or other hostile environments. Professional knowledge of Photoshop, Photo Mechanic, FTP and industry best practices is required.

We’re looking for someone with an outstanding portfolio, strong communication skills, an enthusiasm for this topic, and experience managing multiple assignments and long-term projects. Candidates must be comfortable working on tight deadlines. Some night and weekend shifts are required.

We have identified a strong candidate for this role but encourage interested applicants to upload a resume and cover letter that outlines your vision for the role and what makes for memorable visual work to our jobs portal by July 6. A link to your photography website or a PDF portfolio is also required. All application materials can be uploaded to the same field. The cover letter should be addressed to Director of Photography MaryAnne Golon and Managing Editor Tracy Grant.

Job posting: Multiplatform editor

The Washington Post is looking for an energetic copy editor with a flair for headline writing, a strong understanding of language and style, and a familiarity with SEO, linking and working on digital files. Our desk handles copy across all platforms. In addition to editing stories, newsletters and blogs, tasks include writing captions for photo galleries, crafting digital summaries and proofing interactive graphics and other Web projects.

This job is based in our Washington newsroom. The hours for this position are generally 3:30 to 11 p.m., including weekends. Candidates should have at least five years of copy-editing experience at a mid-to-large-market news organization. A copy-editing test will be required.

We have identified a strong internal candidate for this role but candidates interested in this or future openings should upload a cover letter, resume and 5 to 7 clips of examples of work (as PDFs) to our jobs portal by June 30. All of your application materials can be uploaded to the same field. The cover letter should be addressed to Jesse Lewis, Courtney Rukan or Tracy Grant.

Job posting: Senior audio producer for features

The Washington Post is looking for a senior producer to shape and elevate feature and enterprise podcast stories. This senior producer for features will work with our team of audio producers, and reporters and editors throughout the newsroom, to identify and execute the ideas that will become The Post’s best audio narratives.

The ideal candidate should have expertise in story development and executing sound-rich, long-form audio. In addition to the ability to identify stories that make the most of audio, this person will craft reporting plans, capture audio, and create elegant scripts and sound design.

This senior producer will work on a wide range of stories from short, non-narrated features to standalone miniseries, including duties for Post Reports. The strongest candidate will have a journalism background, along with experience in editing and producing podcasts. Knowledge of sound design and how sound enhances storytelling is a must, and proficiency in sound engineering or audience development would be a plus.

This position is based in our Washington newsroom and is not eligible for remote work.

Candidates should upload a resume and cover letter (as pdfs) to our jobs portal by June 10. Please include, as links to audio files in a pdf, at least two examples of your published work with an explanation of your role in the production. All of your application materials can be uploaded to the same field. The cover letter should be addressed to Director of Audio Jessica Stahl and Managing Editor Tracy Grant.

Job posting: Audio producer

The Washington Post is looking for an audio producer to join our podcast team. This person will work on politics-focused audio projects and become the lead producer of our “Can He Do That?” podcast.

The ideal candidate should have a strong background in political news coverage, understand what people want to know about politics and be able to generate fresh ideas for audio storytelling. Duties will include pitching and refining story ideas, booking interviews and producing and mixing podcast episodes. The job also will require planning and executing long-form efforts, and collaborating across departments to experiment with audio delivery on new platforms.

The right candidate should have significant experience in podcast production, as well as experience cleaning and mixing sound. This person must understand how to use music and clips to help tell a story and have a command of field and studio recording. At least three years of experience in production and journalism is preferred.

Experience in one or more of these areas would be a strong asset:

Emerging audio platforms, such as voice technology

Audience development and community-building efforts

Sound engineering and audio equipment

Proficiency in Pro Tools is a plus but not required.

This position is based in our Washington newsroom and is not eligible for remote work.

Candidates should upload a resume and cover letter (as pdfs) to our jobs portal by June 10. Please include, as links to audio files in a pdf, at least two examples of published work you have produced, with an explanation of your role in the production. All of your application materials can be uploaded to the same field. The cover letter should be addressed to Director of Audio Jessica Stahl and Managing Editor Tracy Grant.

Job Posting: User Experience Designer

The Washington Post is seeking an accomplished user experience designer to explore how to use cutting-edge technologies to support journalism. You will help explore the potential of a variety of emerging technologies, including 5G, spatial computing, AI-powered automation and interactive audio.

The ideal candidate will lead our team’s user experience research and competitive analysis. We’ll use those insights to inform user-facing and journalist-facing products as part of a multidisciplinary team. You will work on multiple, simultaneous projects with stakeholders from both news and other departments to translate requirements into design tasks.

The ideal candidate has a strong body of work in visual and user experience design. This person is passionate about design principles and methods, has a strong interest in digital news media and has some prototyping or front-end experience. Our team takes a user-first approach to design, and knowledge of (or willingness to learn) user research techniques will be essential. We are looking for a curious designer interested in emerging technologies, such as augmented and virtual reality, and is fluent with design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, the Adobe Creative Suite, InVision or others. Familiarity with HTML, CSS and JavaScript for prototyping is a plus.

This position will be based in our Washington newsroom.

Candidates should upload a resume, cover letter and portfolio (as pdfs, with web links if applicable, and as a compressed file, not to exceed the overall upload limit of 5MB) to our jobs portal by May 22. Candidates should highlight projects that show approaches to problem-solving, including a one-paragraph explanation of the problem you attempted to solve. The cover letter should be addressed to Deputy Director of Strategic Initiatives Elite Truong, Director of Strategic Initiatives Jeremy Gilbert and Managing Editor Tracy Grant.

Job Posting: Creative Technologist

The Washington Post is seeking a world-class front-end engineer to explore how to use cutting-edge technologies to support journalism. You will help explore the potential of a variety of emerging technologies like 5G, spatial computing, AI-powered automation and interactive audio.

The ideal front-end engineer will help our team explore emerging technologies and rapidly prototype new applications and storytelling approaches. In this role, you will help to assess foundational technical needs and build infrastructure for team projects utilizing emerging technologies.

This position requires collaboration with multidisciplinary teams from across The Post. You would work closely with design and engineering counterparts. The job would require work on multiple, simultaneous projects. You would also work with project leads and news or revenue stakeholders to execute business and project requirements.

The position necessitates front-end experience and a user-centric approach to building and scaling products. You may be working in JavaScript, the React framework, Node.js or other common JS frameworks and you should have experience working with AWS or other cloud systems.

This position will be based in our Washington newsroom.

Candidates should upload a resume and cover letter (as pdfs) to our jobs portal by May 22. Candidates should highlight projects that show approaches to problem-solving, including a one-paragraph explanation of the problem you attempted to solve. The cover letter should be addressed to Deputy Director of Strategic Initiatives Elite Truong, Director of Strategic Initiatives Jeremy Gilbert and Managing Editor Tracy Grant.

Job posting: Data specialist (contract)

The Washington Post is seeking a data specialist to work on contract through December on some of The Post’s most ambitious data sets for long-term investigative projects.

You’d join The Post’s Advanced Storytelling Lab, working closely with investigations editors, the FOIA director and other newsroom teams to identify, scrape, clean and upload data sets to shared databases used for investigative stories. You would also work with project leads to occasionally process documents through optical character recognition (OCR) tools. The ideal candidate has experience with data scraping, cleaning, analysis and is familiar with filing and tracking FOIA requests. The ability to manage multiple, simultaneous projects each with large amounts of data and create organizational systems and documentation that make sense for multiple users is essential. Familiarity with Python is preferred but not required.

This position will be based in our Washington newsroom.

Candidates should upload a resume and cover letter to our jobs portal by May 20. In the cover letter, highlight your role in previous data projects, describe a time you faced challenges acquiring necessary data and how you navigated the situation. The cover letter should be addressed to Deputy Director of Strategic Initiatives Elite Truong, Director of Strategic Initiatives Jeremy Gilbert and Managing Editor Tracy Grant.

The Washington Post and American University are continuing their long-standing fellowship program

The Washington Post and American University are continuing their long-standing fellowship program, which allows mid-career journalists to earn a Master’s degree while working on the Metro staff of The Washington Post.

The Post is one of the world's premier news organizations. While earning an advanced degree, the AU fellow will help cover greater Washington, an increasingly diverse region that includes the nation's capital and its suburbs in Maryland and Virginia, including both state capital bureaus. With around 60 reporters, The Washington Post's local staff is the region's dominant news gathering organization. Post reporters cover government, politics, crime, social issues, transportation, development, and education; they write feature and trend stories; they investigate major local institutions; and they blog, shoot video, chat online and work intensively with databases. The yearlong fellowship begins in August 2020.

QUALIFICATIONS

· Two to five years of newspaper experience, doing high-caliber work

· A career devoted to journalism, with a focus on deep reporting and elegant writing

· Superb work ethic, willing to take direction, and ability to multitask

· Experience in reporting on or background in religion, transportation, education, law

enforcement, or government is a plus

· Ability to blog and create other engaging digital content is a plus

ELIGIBILITY

· Applied and accepted to the AU MA in Journalism & Public Affairs

· Enrolled full-time (9 credits or more)

· U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status

HOW TO APPLY

1. Apply to the MA program in Journalism and Public Affairs via the online form. As part of your application to the master’s program, you will need to submit the following documents: official transcripts, resume, admissions essay, two letters of recommendation, portfolio (optional), application form and $55 application fee.

2. On the application form, indicate your interest in The Washington Post Fellowship by clicking “Yes,” under The Washington Post Fellowship.

3. Once you indicate your interest, a prompt will ask you to submit these additional materials:

Cover letter, no more than two pages, describing your interest in and qualifications for The Washington Post Fellowship.

Up to three samples of work (provide links to your work in one Word document).

Two additional letters of recommendation for The Washington Post Fellowship, addressing your professional qualifications and the ways in which you would benefit from the fellowship.

COMPENSATION

Full tuition and an approximately $30,000 stipend

APPLICATION DEADLINE

June 1, 2020

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