What are the responsibilities and job description for the Education Reporter position at San Antonio Express-News?
Job Description
San Antonio Express-News
Education Reporter
The San Antonio Express-News is looking for a reporter with a searching spirit, a passion for reporting and a flair for storytelling to write about innovation in K-12 schools in one of the nation’s fastest growing metro areas.
The successful candidate will be a fearless, enterprising reporter who loves to get inside classrooms, talk to students, parents and teachers, decipher budgets and use data to tell stories.
If selected for the position, you will join an established education team that covers K-12 and higher ed in the San Antonio region. Your role within that team will be to focus on efforts to experiment and innovate in the classroom. You’ll report on new teaching methods, new technologies, unique school-community partnerships and the like. You’ll look for stories about programs and people who are trying to get beyond the tried-and-true to find new ways to close learning gaps, motivate students and enhance teachers’ effectiveness.
Although this is not an investigative reporting position per se, the successful candidate -- like all San Antonio Express-News beat reporters -- will be encouraged to look for and execute accountability stories.
Above all, it’s your job, and every reporter’s greatest challenge, to be interesting – to make education legible, meaningful and compelling to the people whose taxes support it and whose children depend on it.
Prerequisites
The Express-News is the third largest daily newspaper in Texas and the only daily paper in San Antonio. It serves a metro area of 2.5 million people. By one name or another, it traces its roots in the region back to 1865. Over the past three years, the paper has reorganized to focus on digital journalism and has substantially increased the audience for its subscriber website, ExpressNews.com. Over the same period, the Express-News has won a George Polk Award, two IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors) Awards and numerous regional and state journalism prizes.
It is part of Hearst, a diversified global media, services and information business. Hearst Newspaper Group includes the Express-News, the Houston Chronicle, the Austin American-Statesman, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Albany Times Union and other daily and weekly papers. Pay and benefits are highly competitive.
About Hearst Newspapers:
With 2,500 employees across the nation, HNP encompasses a network of 24 daily and 52 weekly publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and Albany Times Union, several top digital-only news and lifestyle sites, marketing services businesses, and entertainment businesses such as King Features Syndicate.
At HNP, we are investing in new and innovative ways to tell stories – growing newsrooms, diversifying tools, evolving platforms – to support the millions of people who trust us each month to help them make decisions, take action and be inspired.
Be a part of something bigger – your headline awaits.
Recognizing the diverse needs of our candidates, if you are interested in applying for employment and need assistance or an accommodation to use our website or regarding the application process, please contact us by email at hnpemployment@hearst.com. Please do not use this email address to inquire about the status of applications. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests for a reasonable accommodation through this email address.
San Antonio Express-News
Education Reporter
The San Antonio Express-News is looking for a reporter with a searching spirit, a passion for reporting and a flair for storytelling to write about innovation in K-12 schools in one of the nation’s fastest growing metro areas.
The successful candidate will be a fearless, enterprising reporter who loves to get inside classrooms, talk to students, parents and teachers, decipher budgets and use data to tell stories.
If selected for the position, you will join an established education team that covers K-12 and higher ed in the San Antonio region. Your role within that team will be to focus on efforts to experiment and innovate in the classroom. You’ll report on new teaching methods, new technologies, unique school-community partnerships and the like. You’ll look for stories about programs and people who are trying to get beyond the tried-and-true to find new ways to close learning gaps, motivate students and enhance teachers’ effectiveness.
Although this is not an investigative reporting position per se, the successful candidate -- like all San Antonio Express-News beat reporters -- will be encouraged to look for and execute accountability stories.
Above all, it’s your job, and every reporter’s greatest challenge, to be interesting – to make education legible, meaningful and compelling to the people whose taxes support it and whose children depend on it.
Prerequisites
- College degree
- Three to five years of experience as a reporter
- Fluency in the basics of digital journalism, including SEO, headline writing, audience metrics, social listening and social promotion
- Spanish-language fluency is a plus but is not required
- Data skills are a plus
The Express-News is the third largest daily newspaper in Texas and the only daily paper in San Antonio. It serves a metro area of 2.5 million people. By one name or another, it traces its roots in the region back to 1865. Over the past three years, the paper has reorganized to focus on digital journalism and has substantially increased the audience for its subscriber website, ExpressNews.com. Over the same period, the Express-News has won a George Polk Award, two IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors) Awards and numerous regional and state journalism prizes.
It is part of Hearst, a diversified global media, services and information business. Hearst Newspaper Group includes the Express-News, the Houston Chronicle, the Austin American-Statesman, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Albany Times Union and other daily and weekly papers. Pay and benefits are highly competitive.
About Hearst Newspapers:
With 2,500 employees across the nation, HNP encompasses a network of 24 daily and 52 weekly publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and Albany Times Union, several top digital-only news and lifestyle sites, marketing services businesses, and entertainment businesses such as King Features Syndicate.
At HNP, we are investing in new and innovative ways to tell stories – growing newsrooms, diversifying tools, evolving platforms – to support the millions of people who trust us each month to help them make decisions, take action and be inspired.
Be a part of something bigger – your headline awaits.
Recognizing the diverse needs of our candidates, if you are interested in applying for employment and need assistance or an accommodation to use our website or regarding the application process, please contact us by email at hnpemployment@hearst.com. Please do not use this email address to inquire about the status of applications. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests for a reasonable accommodation through this email address.