The Marshall Project seeks to produce ambitious accountability journalism. We are looking for an experienced reporter for our St. Louis news team with the ability to build sources within the justice system, including police, attorneys, judges, public officials and community groups. The successful candidate will have previous experience with investigative and accountability  journalism, data and public-records requests. While your main focus will be investigative, you should be able to build thoughtful shorter-term enterprise pieces off breaking news when appropriate. Ideally, you would have previous experience or exposure to multi-platform work, including newsletters, video, audio and other story forms.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Experienced reporter with the ability to build sources within the justice system, including police, attorneys, judges, public officials and community groups. 
• Previous experience with investigative and impact journalism, data and public records requests. While your main focus will be investigative, you should be able to build thoughtful shorter-term enterprise pieces off breaking news when appropriate. 
• Previous experience or exposure to multiplatform work, including newsletters, video, audio and other story forms.
• Content production will vary between enterprise and quick-turn investigations (up to four weeks turnaround) and long-term projects 

WHO YOU'D BE WORKING WITH 

• This job reports to The Marshall Project’s local leadership team, including the managing editor, local. 
• An engagement reporter based in St. Louis
• A second investigative reporter to be based in St. Louis
• Members of our centralized newsroom 

QUALIFICATIONS

To succeed in this job, you must be able to write clearly, translate jargon and use narrative and other techniques to make readers care. We also prefer someone with previous experience or exposure to multiplatform work, including newsletters, video, audio and other story forms. We seek to hold the powerful accountable, but also to explain and expose systemic problems. We value impact, as well as surprise, colorful writing and counter-intuitive analysis.

• Collaboration is part of our DNA; all our reporters must work well with colleagues as well as with journalists at our partner publications. 
• You must be based in the St. Louis area.

We do not expect every candidate to be equally skilled in all these areas, and this is not a complete list of all relevant qualifications applicants might bring to the job. Reaching talent across a range of backgrounds and experiences is deeply important to us.

WHO WE ARE

The Marshall Project is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to covering America’s criminal justice system. In 2016 and 2021, The Marshall Project was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. We have also been honored with the Goldsmith Prize, multiple National Magazine Awards, and for General Excellence from the Online Journalism Awards. We are not advocates—we follow the facts and we do not pander to any audience—but we have a declared mission: to create and sustain a sense of urgency about the criminal justice system. We do not generally cover breaking news (although we curate the reporting of other news outlets in our morning newsletter). Our work includes investigative and explanatory projects and shorter pieces aimed at highlighting stories that other news organizations miss, underestimate or misunderstand. To assure our work reaches a larger audience we partner or co-publish with other media outlets on almost all of our work; we have partnered with more than 200 newspapers, magazines, broadcasters and online sites.

We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity. We welcome qualified applicants of all races, ethnicities, ages, physical abilities, genders and sexual orientations, including people who have been incarcerated or otherwise involved with the criminal justice system.

The Marshall Project works remotely, with physical office space in New York. Applicants from all regions of the U.S. are welcome to apply, as long as they are willing to travel. A base in New York or northern California preferred.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

This job is full-time, with a competitive salary and benefits including:

Annual salary minimum: $85,000 to $105,000

100% employer-paid and employer contributed medical, vision and dental insurance; matching traditional and Roth 401k (immediate vesting), Health and Dependent Care FSA; commuter benefits; pet insurance; short and long term disability insurance; employee and dependent life insurance; AFLAC accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness coverage; home and auto insurance; legal benefits; personal excess liability insurance; discount marketplace; 17 days of paid time off each year (in addition to office closure between Dec 24 and January 2); and fully paid parental and family leave.

HOW TO APPLY

To apply, use to send a cover letter, resume, three examples of your best work.

Due to the expected volume of applications, we will follow up with the most promising candidates, but cannot respond individually to all applicants. Please know it usually takes us more than a month to review applications.

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