Political Correspondent, San Antonio

POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT, SAN ANTONIO

📍 Remote (San Antonio, TX based) | 💼 Full-Time | 💰 $60,000 to $75,000

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At Courier Newsroom, we’re reinventing local media to inform and empower communities through impactful reporting. Our mission is rooted in civic engagement and equity—and we’re growing fast.

We are presently looking for a POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT in SAN ANTONIO.

The San Antonio political correspondent will lead our regional political coverage in the San Antonio area, telling important, timely, and engaging stories about the second-biggest city in Texas. You’ll be responsible for producing local media products—such as newsletters, video series/streams, podcasts, and social media content—that you manage and through which you will personally build trust with your audience.

Through your product-driven reporting, you will connect important policy decisions in the city and state to the day-to-day lives of our readers. You’ll humanize and localize what’s happening in government on key issues, in order to improve our audience’s understanding of state and local politics and government and motivate our readers to get involved.

Thinking beyond the methods of legacy outlets that rely on a broader, official media brand, our correspondents will personally build confidence in San Antonio communities by being a visible, relatable, frequent presence in their social feeds and/or inboxes. Correspondents will also review insights and learnings from audience data and feedback to inform content strategy as products evolve.

The position is remote, but the San Antonio Political Correspondent will need to reside in the San Antonio area. The position requires some weekend and evening work, along with flexible scheduling. The position reports to the Texas Chief Political Correspondent.

COURIER Newsroom is committed to building an inclusive workplace that values diverse perspectives and lived experiences. We strongly encourage women, people of color, individuals with disabilities, LGBTQ candidates, and those from all backgrounds to apply. As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to break down barriers and ensure every team member feels seen, heard, and supported.

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of the mission and core audience for the community and best practices for communicating with that audience.
• Pitch, develop, and market specific media products designed to reach audiences who aren’t currently being served by legacy or local media.
• Produce a regular cadence of coverage for your product(s) that is engaging and help build an audience with a product that is created at least once weekly.
• Generate multi-platform content for your product in order to maximize your journalism’s reach, such as creating Instagram carousels for a newsletter, or if you do a podcast, ensuring it’s on video, too.
• Regularly brainstorm and pitch story and content ideas that align to your products.
• Break news through your products.
• Work to build a personal brand through social platforms.
• Work with editorial leadership to ensure high-quality reporting and content is created.
• In conjunction with editorial leadership, develop and execute strategies for how to help grow and ultimately monetize your product.
• Attend public meetings, town halls, political rallies, and other events in the San Antonio area to find sources, stories, and people impacted by the decisions made by elected officials and government agencies.
• Collaborate with other members of the Texas newsroom, including our Newsletter Editors and Social Media Manager, our national video and design teams, and occasionally with reporters in Courier’s other newsrooms.
• Build broad and diverse relationships so that sources, story ideas, research, and reporting reflect the diverse communities of the San Antonio region.
• Ensure all editorial content—such as newsletters, videos, and graphics—are curated and branded consistently.
• Be committed to accuracy and meeting deadlines.
• Participate in special projects as neede
  
  

The ideal candidate will have some of the following:

• Have at least 1-3 years experience in political reporting/content creation or similar communications work.
• Experience crafting stories about people impacted by the issues you’re covering.
• Demonstrable writing skills with the ability to report—through videos, social media content, and written stories—complex issues with simplified, accessible language.
• Be comfortable in front of a camera and reporting through videos, creating presenter-led videos with your phone, and writing scripts. Video editing experience is a bonus.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• A highly-organized, resourceful and proactive self-starter.
• Fluency in Spanish is a plus, as is experience in a marginalized community.
• A desire to be part of a new media model that meets people where they are—most often on social platforms—and looking to leverage your talents to protect democracy through progressive, factual, relevant information rooted in shared values and well being.
• Be comfortable in a startup environment and nimble to switch direction as priorities and projects.
• Have a desire to grow (or already have) an audience as a political content creator.
• Have experience using Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and other social platforms.
• Be able to produce compelling social media posts that deliver key information to our audience in five seconds or less.
• Familiarity with tools like Canva, Capcut, and Descript to support social content production.
• Have a grasp of AP Style.
• Have experience with or a willingness to learn WordPress.
• Have experience with or a willingness to learn Sprout and/or Creator Studio for social media publishing.
  
  

Courier Newsroom offers the following benefits:

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO), 11 paid holidays a year
• An Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Full suite of health benefits
• $500 home office reimbursement
• 401k
• Flexible working arrangements
  
  

Courier Newsroom is an equal opportunity employer. Women, people of color, those with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ community are strongly urged to apply. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, or medical conditions.