Reporter for KUCB
Report for America
Unalaska, AK
Full-time
Writing / Editing
Posted on December 8, 2022
Location: Unalaska, Alaska
BEAT: Regional reporting in the Eastern Aleutians
Position:
This journalist fills the news gap of regional reporting in the Eastern Aleutians. They research, write and produce news and feature stories; host radio news broadcasts; and prepare stories for online distribution. This reporter also works collaboratively with a small team, completes work on deadline with minimal supervision and interacts with the public in a professional manner.
Salary and Benefits:
$45,00-$55,000
Healthcare coverage, parental leave, paid holidays and personal leave days, medical and vacation leave and a 403(b) retirement plan. We also provide a laptop, and some travel and moving expenses.
Skills: Reporting, Writing
About the Publication: KUCB is a public radio and television station in Unalaska, Alaska. We are owned and operated by Unalaska Community Broadcasting, a non-profit formed in 1985 with the mission to inform, educate, entertain, and engage by providing news and arts and culture programming. Our signal serves a community of about 5,000 people. Our stories, however, have a much broader reach: We’re surrounded by some of the most productive fishing grounds in the country, and we’re in the middle of an international shipping corridor. Our station is located in the Aleutian Islands, the ancestral territories of the Unangax Peoples, who have lived in this region more than 9,000 years. Our newsroom is staffed with two local reporters, and they cover stories from all over our thousand-mile region.
This position is sponsored in part by Report for America, a national service program that places talented emerging journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. Report for America is an initiative of The GroundTruth Project.
All Report for America Newsroom Partners are Equal Opportunity Employers.
BEAT: Regional reporting in the Eastern Aleutians
Position:
This journalist fills the news gap of regional reporting in the Eastern Aleutians. They research, write and produce news and feature stories; host radio news broadcasts; and prepare stories for online distribution. This reporter also works collaboratively with a small team, completes work on deadline with minimal supervision and interacts with the public in a professional manner.
Salary and Benefits:
$45,00-$55,000
Healthcare coverage, parental leave, paid holidays and personal leave days, medical and vacation leave and a 403(b) retirement plan. We also provide a laptop, and some travel and moving expenses.
Skills: Reporting, Writing
About the Publication: KUCB is a public radio and television station in Unalaska, Alaska. We are owned and operated by Unalaska Community Broadcasting, a non-profit formed in 1985 with the mission to inform, educate, entertain, and engage by providing news and arts and culture programming. Our signal serves a community of about 5,000 people. Our stories, however, have a much broader reach: We’re surrounded by some of the most productive fishing grounds in the country, and we’re in the middle of an international shipping corridor. Our station is located in the Aleutian Islands, the ancestral territories of the Unangax Peoples, who have lived in this region more than 9,000 years. Our newsroom is staffed with two local reporters, and they cover stories from all over our thousand-mile region.
This position is sponsored in part by Report for America, a national service program that places talented emerging journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. Report for America is an initiative of The GroundTruth Project.
All Report for America Newsroom Partners are Equal Opportunity Employers.