We’re looking for an experienced and versatile journalist for a National Correspondent position in Dallas that will focus on the religious right and its increasingly powerful role in U.S. politics, while also providing spot news coverage in a territory that includes part of Texas and three contiguous states. This reporter will explain to an often mystified world the whys and hows of a group whose vote has become critical in national elections and as a result, with friends in the highest of places, can shape and even determine U.S. policy on issues from abortion rights to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He or she also will be a resource for other reporters on the topic. The favourite will be a self-starter with a penchant for generating great story ideas and the ability to execute them. Not to be overlooked is the ability to cover big, breaking stories in a region where space shuttles fall from the sky, right-wing militants blow up federal buildings and hurricanes swamp major cities. You’ll never be bored.
This is an exempt management position and is not overtime eligible. One condition is that the successful correspondent must be willing to work from home in Dallas, our dateline location.
Reuters is seeking a versatile and energetic self-starter for a three-year special assignment to focus on “Politics Outside the Beltway,” a national beat that will be based in Cincinnati. We are looking for a thoughtful reporter who can go “on the road” and cover the divisions in the country reflected in the region. Ohio went 51 percent for Bush, 49 percent for Kerry. The center of the “Rust Belt,” Ohio remains the seventh largest state economy with manufacturing, farming, mining, shipping … and Amish, Nazis, megachurches, big cities and vast rural areas. But the issues go beyond geography. The successful candidate will travel, not just in Ohio but also in Appalachia, the southern Midwest, and the mid-South to take the political pulse outside the District of Columbia. It is a story where options are shrinking — unions face out-sourcing, high school kids face the Army, baby boomers face an American dream under assault. How is the heart of the heartland beating? We need someone to take its pulse with the midterm and 2008 elections ahead. The Cincinnati correspondent must be expert: a resource for other journalists as well as a beat reporter — a specialist who will be there not only to report and write but also to point colleagues elsewhere in the right direction and define context, background and expertise. The successful applicant will be a deft reporter, colorful writer, team player — and a good driver. This is an exempt management position and is not overtime eligible. One condition is that the successful correspondent must be willing to work from home in Cincinnati, our dateline location.
