| Date Posted | August 25, 2025 |
|---|---|
| Industry | Newspapers |
| Specialty | Other |
| Required Education | Bachelor's Degree |
| Job Status | Full-time |
| Salary | Not Specified |
Description:
The Post and
Courier, the premier news source for South Carolina, is seeking an energetic,
driven reporter to join our award-winning Rising Waters Lab.
The Rising Waters team, composed of
two reporters and an editor, focuses primarily on mounting threats from rising
seas and other climate-driven impacts along coastal South Carolina, with a
particular emphasis on Charleston and the Lowcountry. The team also reports news from other regions in
the state as needed.
Our ambitious coverage is deeply
connected to the people whose lives are being shaped in immediate and long-term
ways by climate change. Flooding, hurricanes and other threats are becoming a more
common and a grave concern for coastal residents. Inland residents are not
immune, as we saw in 2024 with the deadly march of Helene across the Carolinas.
Our Rising Waters
coverage has included stories on the tensions over development vs. preservation
in fast-growing South Carolina, threatened marshes (and the impact on coastal
resilience), and increasingly flood-prone communities and river systems. In
2021, we sent a reporting team to Greenland to explore the impact of melting
glaciers on South Carolina’s coastal flooding. And in 2023, we dispatched a
team to African to document how seasonal Saharan dust storms influence
hurricane formation.
If you are
creative, write with skill and force and know how to translate science into
stories that don’t bore, then you have the starting point for what we’re
seeking in this role. You must be able to produce a steady flow of quick-turn
enterprise stories, with daily coverage of in-the-moment news when needed, and
be able to work with your team to develop enterprise stories and long-range
projects. We want high-impact, ambitious journalism.
Day-to-day reporting
duties include writing stories about flooding, infrastructure challenges,
resiliency and sustainability and their obstacles, green architecture and
design, habitat loss, impacts on endangered species, and conservation efforts.
As noted, stories should emphasize human experiences, showing the connections
between climate change and the way people live.
We look for
journalists who bring passion to their work – team players who are eager to
collaborate. Know that metrics matter in a journalist’s work. You must embrace
the importance of creating high-quality content that attracts, grows and
retains a digital audience.
The Rising Waters Lab is funded through our Public Service
and Investigative fund, a nonprofit arm of The Post and Courier that is
supported by donations from readers and large and small endowments funds.
If you’re hired, you
will join an ambitious, Pulitzer Prize-winning environment where talented
journalists have the opportunity to produce the best work of their careers.
The Post and Courier
is privately held and is investing in journalism. We began expanding across the
state in 2020, seeking to fill a void in news deserts or areas where local news
coverage had withered. We are anchored in scenic Charleston but now operate
Post and Courier newsrooms in multiple South Carolina cities.
We are passionate, dedicated
journalists and seek someone who shares our commitment to excellence.
Knowledge, Skills
and Abilities:
- Digital skills: Must work effectively in a digital-focused news operation
and have a clear grasp of SEO tactics and an eagerness to promote work on
social platforms and elsewhere.
- Accuracy and
ethics: Produces work that is compelling,
accurate and fair. Understands libel and privacy issues.
- Communication: Works well with editors and reporters across disciplines.
Discusses original and assigned story ideas. Participates in brainstorming
sessions to develop detailed and realistic story ideas. Participates in
public events that engage audiences with the issues we cover.
- Organizational skills: Develops a systematic approach to managing a beat and
meeting deadlines.
- Creative mindset: Generates engaging story ideas and varied approaches to
telling stories outside of narrative or explanatory storytelling.
- Flexibility: Reacts to change productively and handles other
duties as assigned.
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