Job description
Newsroom Reporter
The Midland Reporter-Telegram is a newspaper with a strong online following. Midland, Texas, is a true Texas boomtown that has become younger and wants to be known beyond the oil patch.
Experience is preferred but entry-level candidates (including college graduates) with demonstrated ability will be considered. The ability to speak Spanish is a plus. The newsroom is located in a bustling business center in north Midland.
- Must be able to communicate details as they happen
- Must be able to work and develop a beat
- Create and maintain a steady supply of sources for story ideas that allows a depth of ideas each day that can provide different options to choose from.
- Meet metrics for story creation and online visits
- Be creative in storytelling.
- Be versatile enough that he or she can take pictures, shoot videos, manage the website and complete tasks if another member of the team is absent
- Edit sensitive content for publication-readiness, including clarity, fairness, legality, spelling, grammar, punctuation and style.
- Uses metrics to monitor real-time data, determine traffic patterns and make changes tied to the data.
- Manages workflow to meet deadlines.
The Midland Reporter-Telegram , acquired by Hearst in 1979, is located in the heart of the vast 54-county Permian Basin of West Texas, a geological region producing 70 percent of the oil in Texas. The newspaper’s special coverage includes the Permian Basin Oil Report, a weekly section devoted to news of the gas and oil industry, and the mywesttexas.com website which serves the entire Permian Basin with local news and information.
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