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Newsroom fellow (New Orleans, LA)
Verite News
New Orleans, LA
Magazine/News/Digital Journalism
Print/Online
Company Information
Verite News is a Black-led nonprofit news organization with a twofold mission to produce in-depth journalism that serves the whole community while training, developing and mentoring a new generation of minority journalists.
Launched in fall 2022, Verite is growing a staff that will be recognized as a leader in independent, nonpartisan journalism in the Deep South.
The mission is to create a newsroom that is truly diverse in perspective, background and experience.
To that end, Verite is seeking a class of news fellows to join our newsroom team.
The Verite News Fellowship is designed for early career journalists who want to spend 12 months learning from a newsroom of passionate, dedicated journalists.
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications or related field.
- The ability to work quickly, but with accuracy and good news judgment.
- Ability to independently develop and cultivate sources.
- Ability to use social media for research and to engage readers.
- Digital storytelling skills and open mind to trying new approaches.
Duties
- Work with a team of journalists who are focused on revealing and seeking solutions to social inequities and racial equality in our area.
- Develop your own story ideas as well as be willing to collaborate with a small team of like-minded journalists
- Get people to talk, finding willing sources and being able to protect them while telling sensitive and timely stories
- Build trust: Many people who have been impacted by inequities in Louisiana have been victims of predatory actions from other journalists or media outlets. This will require empathy, patience and savvy.
- Work with our audience team and data and visual journalists to create compelling story presentations.
