Culture Reporter - Quad City Times
- Location
- Davenport
- Workplace
- On-site
- Employment
- Full-time
About this role
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Consistently pitch and pursue original stories no other outlet has. Cultivate sources who bring you tips, spot developments early and follow promising leads with urgency and persistence.
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Own and develop the culture beat, generating original ideas and building relationships with artists, performers, business owners, cultural organizations and residents.
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Deliver a mix of timely news, reported features, profiles and useful guides that help readers decide where to go and what to experience.
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Break news about cultural institutions, venues, restaurants and emerging trends, and follow developments beyond their initial announcement.
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Explore questions of money, access, growth and change, including how cultural investment affects neighborhoods and whose stories receive attention.
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Seek out communities, traditions and voices that have been overlooked in local coverage.
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Collaborate with editors and visual journalists to tell stories through words, photography, video and other digital formats.
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Use audience feedback and readership insights to make coverage more useful, discover new questions and build lasting reader relationships.
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Maintain high standards for accuracy, fairness and independence, including when covering businesses and organizations featured in entertainment coverage.
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Strong reporting, interviewing and writing skills, demonstrated through published work, student journalism or comparable experience.
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The ability to balance quick-turn stories with deeper enterprise reporting and manage competing deadlines.
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Curiosity about local culture and an instinct for finding the larger story behind an event or trend.
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A commitment to inclusive sourcing and building trust across communities.
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Comfort with digital publishing and social media, plus a willingness to develop photography and video skills.
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The ability to report throughout the Quad-Cities and work occasional evenings and weekends as coverage requires.
Why Join Us?
Lee Enterprises offers competitive wages in a dynamic, interesting work environment with career growth opportunities. We offer an extensive benefit program that can be personalized to your needs. Our benefit program includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, company provided life insurance and supplemental life insurance. In addition, we offer a 401K retirement plan with company match. We also offer generous paid time off to allow the flexibility to balance personal life and work. This includes paid parental leave for new parents.
Lee Enterprises is a leading provider of local news and information and a major subscription and advertising platform, with daily and weekly newspapers and rapidly expanding digital products serving 114 markets across 25 states. Our core commitment is to provide valuable, intensely local news and information to the communities we serve.
Lee Enterprises is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We respect and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
For more information about Lee, check us out at www.lee.net.
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