Water and Environment Reporter

Company : Community Radio For Northern Colorado

Job Type : Full Time

Number of Applicants

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Job Description - Water and Environment Reporter

Water and Environment Reporter

Full-Time:       Yes
Exempt:          Yes
Reports to:     Senior Managing Editor – Colorado Water and Environment Desk

Summary:
This position is responsible for reporting and communicating information in a clear, engaging, and professional manner both on-air and on KUNC’s digital platforms. This grant-funded position must be a productive, responsible, and enterprising individual possessing a passion for how regional water and environmental issues in the Colorado River Basin connect to the KUNC listening area, which encompasses Colorado’s Front Range, the Eastern Plains, and mountain communities.

Essential Functions:

Reports, writes and produces original audio and digital stories from across KUNC’s listening area that live up to KUNC’s and NPR's standards for accuracy, fairness, and newsworthiness
Using the CRNC Strategic Plan, works collaboratively to design and implement a vision and strategy for KUNC’s Colorado Water and Environment Desk that ensures relevant and engaging news content that meets the needs of our community.
Develops, reports and produces stories that are seen through a “solutions” lens, when appropriate, working with KUNC’s solutions-trained editor.
Cultivates diverse sources and makes use of reporting tools like FOIA and CORA, database acquisition and analysis and data mining to uncover original stories that matter.
Plans, assigns, schedules, and edits stories that originate from the desk and include the station’s environmental coverage.
Familiarizes themselves with the required deliverables under the project’s 2-year grant and meets expectations.
Maintains and further develops the desk’s ongoing content sharing consortium with partner outlets.
Reports both short-term and medium-term editorial projects, including developing original story ideas.
Writes and compiles regular reports that document the fulfillment of the desk's grant requirements, as outlined in the grant agreement.
Uses and creates audience engagement opportunities to become informed on topics important to audiences.
Files original reporting to all editorial platforms, including digital and visual media, social networks, and various audio platforms, with the goal of reaching the largest audiences with the biggest impact.
Builds a robust list of sources they speak to regularly to both break news and understand what is happening in our listening area.
Completes data analysis; requests records under state and federal laws; obtains original documents; completes fact checking and verification.
Uncovers and reports important news information and generates stories that go beyond chronicling and create impact and potential change.
Contributes general news story ideas and project ideas to the newsroom.
Attends and participates in newsroom editorial and planning meetings.

Additional Responsibilities:

Participates in station fundraising, development and promotional functions.
Generates newscast content on topics related to ongoing and previous investigations.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Knowledge

Broadcast, digital recording, and editing equipment.
FCC guidelines and requirements.
Wide Orbit or other automation systems.
Digital and social media concepts and tools.

Skills

On-air presentation, as well as interviewing, writing and audio production skills.

Editorial judgment, fair, accurate news writing, a sense of mission, and interviews and online work as required
Operating a personal computer with proficient skills in Excel, Outlook, Word and Dropbox.
Providing oversight and support to new reporters, including assisting with projects and giving guidance on reporting tools.
Demonstrated understanding and use of digital and social media concepts and tools and the ability to think creatively about digital content.
Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, while utilizing proper grammar.
Perform work professionally, with ethics and integrity, and maintain confidentiality when required.
Comfortable with peer editing and guiding less-experienced colleagues who need support.

Abilities

Productive, responsible, and enterprising individual possessing a grasp of how global, national, and regional issues connect to the KUNC listening area.
Work with little supervision and exercise good independent judgment.
Maintain high journalistic standards of objectivity, balance, and fairness.

Establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees and the community.

Think creatively about digital content.

Handle multiple priorities and simultaneous demands, organizing and completing tasks according to their importance.
Commit to supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
Consistently work well with others, demonstrating at all times respect for the diverse constituencies at KUNC and within the public broadcasting system.

Experience and Qualifications

High School Diploma or GED is required and a Bachelor’s Degree in journalism, broadcast communication or similar field is preferred.
Three (3) years of prior experience reporting news is required.
Valid Colorado driver’s license and access to a vehicle is required.
Must be located in Colorado broadcast coverage area for KUNC.
Bilingual in Spanish is preferred.

Physical Demands
The employee is required to frequently stand, walk, sit, use hands and fingers, reach and lift with arms, climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is required to frequently lift up to 20 pounds without assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; peripheral vision; depth perception; and the ability to adjust focus.

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Work Environment
The employee typically works indoors in a standard office environment but is required to travel to other locations for interviews, reporting and/or station events, and some reporting may be outdoors.
This job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change. CRNC is an equal employment opportunity employer.
About CRNC:
CRNC is a community-licensed public media company, operated by Community Radio for Northern Colorado, Inc., a 501 (c) 3, Colorado non-profit organization. Our mission is to strengthen our community by cultivating the mind and spirit - informing, inspiring, and entertaining.
The KUNC News Team is a group of dedicated journalists who are committed to telling the stories of our diverse communities, reflecting the people who live in those communities, and amplifying their voices. We operate with a team mentality, creating engaging and relevant content focusing on internal and external collaboration and experimenting in content styles and distribution.
Our non-commercial music service, The Colorado Sound, offers unique and diverse music discovery programming. We are based in Northern Colorado but heard throughout the state, across the country, and around the world. The Colorado Sound brings the spirit and soul of Colorado to our listeners through a cross-genre mix of new music, familiar favorites, and regional standouts.

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