The San Antonio Express-News seeks an enterprising, independent-minded journalist to write about the rapid population growth and associated pressures in communities along the Interstate 35 corridor between San Antonio and Austin -- with an emphasis on transportation.

In this role, you will join a multi-reporter regional team covering San Antonio’s suburbs and exurbs, including portions of the Texas Hill Country. These areas include some of the fastest-growing ZIP codes in the United States, and the reverberations of rapid population growth extend to schools, local politics, the environment, water supply, mobility and ideological battles over reproductive rights, school curricula, policing, and more.

Reporters on the regional team have specialties, and yours, if you are hired for this position, will be transportation on a regional scale: how people get from place to place, the difficulties they encounter and what is being done about it (or not). You’ll cover breaking news, write human interest features and develop enterprise and accountability stories. Your editors will help you balance those priorities.

 

Qualifications: 

Flexibility to balance urgent breaking news, features, and deep enterprise reporting. Strong news judgment, a keen eye for trends, able to see through spin Able to cover a beat and build sources to break news and produce distinct, deeply reported enterprise  Able to explain complex issues in clear, compelling ways Comfortable working in multiple media formats to report on breaking news and produce beat-driven enterprise Experience working as a successful member of a collaborative team 3 years experience with a daily news organization  College Degree
 

About us: 

The Express-News is the third largest daily newspaper in Texas, with a 7-day-a-week print edition, many daily or weekly email newsletters and a subscription-only website, ExpressNews.com, whose paying readership has increased four-fold in the last few years.

Our mission is to serve our South Texas community with original journalism and to demonstrate that a reader-supported local news organization can not only survive but thrive. In hiring journalists, the Express-News puts a premium on flexibility, collegiality and character. We value creativity, clear writing, thoroughness, evenhandedness and objectivity. We seek reporters who have a passion for the sacred service of documenting the times we live in and making them understandable to our readers.

The Express-News is part of Hearst, a highly diversified media company that publishes 24 daily newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Albany Times Union. Benefits and pay are highly competitive.