Public Safety Reporter

Public Safety Reporter

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is looking for an aggressive, enterprising reporter to join our public safety team. We want a reporter who is adept at quickly filing a news story but is also able to see the big picture.

This beat will focus heavily on coverage of local crime and police departments. But you'll play a key role in helping us reimagine our public safety coverage as a whole.

You'll post breaking news immediately but also have chances to dig deeper. We want a reporter who can identify the best story of the day, delve into how it happened and conduct revealing interviews.

We're looking for the ability to connect with the community and develop enterprise and feature stories, in addition to breaking-news instincts. You'll have the chance to focus on crime trends and their impacts in neighborhoods, and to hold criminal justice officials accountable.

We also want someone who can work across all of our digital platforms and understands the need to experiment with new story forms.

Please attach 6-8 writing samples. You're also welcome to send us multi-media work or any other work you think will showcase your abilities.

Why Join Us?

Lee Enterprises offers competitive wages in a dynamic, interesting work environment with career growth opportunities. We offer an extensive benefit program that can be personalized to your needs.

Our benefit program includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, company provided life insurance and supplemental life insurance. In addition, we offer a 401K retirement plan with company match. We also offer generous paid time off to allow the flexibility to balance personal life and work. This includes paid parental leave for new parents.

Lee Enterprises is a major subscription and advertising platform and a leading provider of local news and information, with daily newspapers, rapidly growing digital products and nearly 350 weekly and specialty publications serving 73 markets in 26 states. Year to date, Lee's newspapers have an average daily circulation of 1.0 million, and our legacy websites, including acquisitions, reach more than 33 million digital unique visitors.

Lee Enterprises is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to attracting and retaining a workforce whose diversity reflects the communities we serve.

Lee embraces change, and we recognize that we must create and maintain a culture of fervent inclusion. For more information about Lee, check us out at www.lee.net.

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role but do not meet 100% of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply.

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• St. Louis, MO, USA