Posted in Other 26 days ago.
Req #40588
Monday, February 5, 2024 Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) is a subscription-led and digitally-focused media and marketing solutions company committed to empowering communities to thrive. With an unmatched reach at the national and local level, Gannett touches the lives of millions with our Pulitzer Prize-winning content, consumer experiences and benefits, and advertiser products and services.The Herald-Mail / heraldmailmedia.com in Hagerstown, Maryland, seeks a reporter with a deep interest in how communities find solutions to public safety needs. This reporter strives to serve the needs of the people most affected by crime and highlights the solutions and challenges they face.
Breaking news, crime and courts are part of the beat, but we want to cover policing and criminal justice through a governmental accountability lens and rebuild trust with neglected communities.
This reporter will pursue some news du jour that warrants coverage because of public interest and public impact. When an incident or trend is truly significant in terms of public impact, this reporter will seek angles answering Who?, How? and Why?
A good way to think of this reporters approach most days is determining how to make local news coverage more three-dimensional in our exploration of public safety threats and concerns and of the communitys response to these. This is people-centered, community-based coverage that delivers relevance, context and useful information to all readers. The reporter should feel as comfortable working with the community as they do talking with law enforcement employees, developing key sources with agencies, and making their way around a courthouse.
This could include reporting on how public safety issues also impact health outcomes, including mental health outcomes, and the impact that trauma has on communities.
Much of the time, this reporter will be examining the effectiveness of community safety efforts through reviews of data and public documents and interviews with law-enforcement sources and community residents. At a time of rising gun violence, what efforts by police or others might be productive? And which ones are not? This reporter will use data to highlight what disparities, racial or otherwise, might develop from specific community safety approaches.
It is vital this reporter develops law-enforcement sources and builds trust in city, county, local and state policing organizations. This helps us hold agencies accountable while also ensuring law-enforcement perspectives are explored in our journalism.
Overall, this reporter will embrace the needs, concerns and solutions experienced and expressed by the people who live in our cities and towns, particularly members of marginalized communities whose voices historically have been absent from much public safety coverage.
Where possible, coverage should point to solutions to public safety threats and concerns, including examining how readers can protect themselves.
This journalist will also be involved in other general breaking news or topics as needed.
This reporter works with a Local Editor and other journalists in the state and our nearby sites in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, to plan and deliver content for readers most likely to find our work on mobile devices and through social media shares or Google searches.
Based in Hagerstown, the reporter will focus on news in Washington County and several surrounding areas, and will work at times in partnership with USA TODAY Network reporters throughout New York, Atlantic region and sometimes beyond.
An ideal candidate is someone capable of quickly establishing their voice and building a loyal following on Instagram and other social media channels.
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