Health Beat Reporter Job at WHRO Public Media in Norfolk

The Health Beat Reporter will cover health for Hampton Roads, digging into the topic as a major local industry, a science, tackling consumer protection themes all while keeping human stories at the center of their work.

WHRO's health reporter will think of health as a business, science, government policy and human interest topic, sometimes all at once. The ideal candidate will look for stories in Hampton Roads' numerous hospital systems, emerging public health education programs and in the communities who are living with longstanding health disparities.

The health reporter's primary responsibility is to look for daily stories to document major changes in the local health and health care landscape while pursuing long-term feature stories of interest to the regional community.

The ideal reporter will look for story ideas before major health policy changes and in some cases, uncover and document challenges that may inspire change in the health world. To that end, the reporter may collaborate with the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO to bring Hampton Roads story to a larger statewide audience with more reporting and sources.

All beat reporters will be expected to produce several daily stories a week and regular enterprise stories.

Supervisory Responsibilities

N/A

Duties/Responsibilities

File regular daily and long-form news which includes digital and broadcast components

Engage with the Hampton Roads community to build sources and trust within your assigned beat to ensure a full accounting of the stories

Maintain detailed knowledge of assigned beat at a local, state and national level to find enterprise story topics and break local news within the beat

Research large quantities of information on one topic and distill it into meaningful, understandable takeaways

Work closely with an editor, hosts and other colleagues to determine editorial priorities, share ideas and provide accurate, timely engaging health news to WHROs audience

Contextualize and humanize reporting by seeking out a diverse range of local people to center health stories

Participate in station events as appropriate.

Ensure all reporting meets the WHRO expectations of accuracy, independence and fairness.

Have an interest in and talent for engaging with diverse communities

Lead occasional training and/or listening sessions for the newsroom

Available to work varied shifts as required by the news cycle

Pitch big projects, series and investigations

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Required Skills/Abilities

Demonstrated written and/or verbal communication skills

Education

Bachelors degree or 4 years equivalent experience

Experience

Minimum 4 years of demonstrated experience in professional journalism

Experience in newsroom, preferably local or regional

Experience in audio field reporting and production

Additional Preferred Skills

Visual journalism including still photography and videography

Knowledge of Adobe Audition audio editing software

Fluency in more than one language

Data visualization skills

Knowledge of the Hampton Roads, VA region

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