General Assignment Reporter

The Houston Landing is looking for individuals to add to our team of passionate people on a mission to advance democracy in our communities and strengthen the lives of all Houstonians one story at a time. Houston Landing is an independent, nonpartisan news organization devoted to public service journalism. Initially supported by three of Houston’s leading philanthropies including Arnold Ventures, The Houston Endowment, and the Kinder Foundation, we are building a team to support our efforts in sustainability and revenue growth.

Houston Landing is hiring a general assignment reporter to cover a broad range of stories from breaking news to enterprise and investigations, on camera and off.

This role is a differentiator: we seek an accomplished journalist with a proven track record of tackling difficult assignments, writing with clarity and elegance, developing topic expertise quickly and the vision to connect the dots that are not obvious. General assignment coverage...

The Houston Landing is looking for individuals to add to our team of passionate people on a mission to advance democracy in our communities and strengthen the lives of all Houstonians one story at a time. Houston Landing is an independent, nonpartisan news organization devoted to public service journalism. Initially supported by three of Houston’s leading philanthropies including Arnold Ventures, The Houston Endowment, and the Kinder Foundation, we are building a team to support our efforts in sustainability and revenue growth. This is a new position created as part of the Landing’s expansion of its education team, which will feature five reporters, an editor focused solely on education coverage and an audience engagement producer embedded within the team. Compensation is commensurate with experience, with a minimum salary of $70,000.

This position will primarily involve assisting our three beat reporters with their day-to-day coverage of their target districts/topics, which...