ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network helps produce vital, investigative journalism in communities where such stories would otherwise not be done. Now entering its ninth year, the program will be taking on 15 new partnerships over the course of 2026. 

Applications for all 15 projects are open now and will be considered on a rolling basis using the deadlines below. There will be three fellowship periods and we will select five fellows for each round:

For these partnerships, ProPublica will provide a grant, to be paid in monthly installments, to the selected newsroom reflecting the annual salary (up to $80,000 plus a 25% allowance for benefits) for one full-time reporter in each newsroom. Successful candidates will have a proven track record of investigative reporting and impact, and will provide a memo about the project they’re proposing working on for the duration of the one-year partnership.

Strong applications will express why the project needs to be told in your community — we’re eager for projects that can’t be done anywhere else. They will also explain how the project would benefit from this collaboration, potentially including the role that our data, research and engagement reporting resources could play, and they will discuss how the project may resonate with both local and national audiences. 

Once accepted, local reporters will work from and report to their home newsrooms while receiving extensive support and guidance for their work from ProPublica, including collaboration with a senior editor and access to the nonprofit newsroom’s expertise. The work will be published or broadcast by your newsroom and simultaneously by ProPublica.

ProPublica reporters and editors are available to answer questions or to give you feedback on your application before you submit it. Please reach us at Local.Reporting@propublica.org. 

We are unable to accept applications via email. No phone calls, please.

We will be accepting applications for this role until at least Monday, June 1st at 3PM ET.

ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. We dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust — and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account.

Short-form video has been and will continue to be how many people receive news about the world, which is why we are looking to expand ProPublica’s social video team with a two-year temporary social video producer.

This role will translate our long-form journalism into short-form, video-first content for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts and our other social platforms. We see our platforms not just as traffic drivers to our stories but also as a means for us to build stand-alone editorial products. Since the social video team’s creation, our work has adapted Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court and state abortion bans. We’ve showcased reporters and their investigations into ICE detention centers, bird flu outbreaks, cuts to USAID and more.

We’re looking for someone who understands platform trends and can create vertical, short-form social videos. This person should also be comfortable working with journalists and editors across the newsroom to get the findings of our work in front of new audiences.

This role will help uphold the standard and tone for how we connect with our current social video audiences while expanding our reach to new ones. You will be at the center of one of the most exciting newsrooms in the country, where visual storytelling is integral to our mission.

This temporary two-year role will report to our social video editor and sits within the larger ProPublica audience team.

Essential Responsibilities

• Create video content that is grounded in ethical journalistic principles, standards and practices, and use editorial judgment to translate stories with the sensitivity, care and appropriate tone required of our investigations.
• Collaborate with reporters, editors, visual editors, audience team members and other staffers to identify and produce compelling video storytelling.
• Own the creative and technical production for videos from beginning to end, including writing and editing scripts, working with reporters and editors to gather visual assets, designing any as-needed still and motion graphics, and writing the social post captions.
• Serve as the on-screen narrator/host for videos, maintaining a voice and approach for explainer-type and host-led video content that is appropriate for ProPublica’s brand. 
• Shoot and edit video in studio, remotely and in the field, ensuring high-quality production values.
• Identify and edit compelling media clips for video podcasts, live events, media appearances and more and adapt them into optimized formats for social platforms.
• Manage multiple projects in various stages of production, sometimes meeting tight deadlines. 
• Monitor the editorial calendar and pitch ideas for social video content and packages.
• Define and maintain our workflow processes and systems to ensure a consistent production of video content.
• Track monthly video analytics reports that can help inform future optimization, strategy and more.
• Track evolving trends amid video platforms and their audiences and share insights with the team.

About You

We are looking for people who have proven that they can use video and design skills for journalistic ends.

The ideal candidate will have many of these skills:

• Three or more years of video journalism, content production and/or video editing experience.
• Fluency telling stories for social platforms with text on screen, voice-overs, direct-to-camera or other methods.
• Strong understanding of algorithmic trends and platform optimization strategies, including expertise in crafting effective video titles, thumbnails, descriptions and metadata to maximize reach and engagement across social platforms.
• Experience conducting on-camera interviews and directing video subjects in person and remotely. 
• Proficiency in media production software (e.g., Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, CapCut, Photoshop, Figma).
• Strong writing and editing skills.
• The ability to communicate social storytelling ideas through scripts or storyboards and advocate for projects with social potential across the newsroom.
• Experience with project management software such as Trello, Airtable or Notion.
• A collaborative mindset, stellar communication skills and the ability to work on several projects at once. You’ll need to stay organized and focused and meet deadlines.
• Ability to travel, as needed, for assignments, training and staff meetings. 

And these skills are desirable:

• Experience using a digital asset management system such as WoodWing.
• Knowledge of media rights and clearances and a working knowledge of copyright permissions.
• Experience in a newsroom or media organization.

This job is full time and includes benefits. ProPublica is based in New York, but we’re open to remote candidates in the U.S. We have offices in New York City; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Chicago; Phoenix; and Berkeley, California. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.

The expected salary range for this position is $90,000 to $105,000.

This is a good-faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position. The final salary figure will take into account a person’s experience, accomplishment and location. ProPublica is committed to paying its staff equitably, and these ranges should not be considered career salary limits or caps.

We will begin reviewing applications as we receive them, but we will continue to consider candidates as long as the posting remains live on our site.

Questions? Send an email to talent@propublica.org.

No phone calls, please.

We will stop accepting applications for this role on Friday, May 29th at 3:00PM EDT.

We’re looking for a driven reporter to take on compelling stories that are grounded in the Southwest but have national resonance — work that is compelling, revelatory and brings about change.

The Southwest has been the focus of some of ProPublica’s most ambitious coverage. Our investigations have exposed the Trump administration misrepresenting federal preparedness to combat wildfires, the growing subsidization of and ecological devastation caused by grazing on public lands, an Arizona county’s costly and ineffective pursuit of the death penalty, scientists’ destruction of Indigenous human remains, Albuquerque, New Mexico’s criminalization of homelessness and Utah officials’ efforts to undermine solar energy.

You’ll join a team covering the Southwest with a focus on Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah.

We’re interested in pitches for covering issues affecting members of the region’s many federally registered tribes, and for reporting on state government accountability, particularly in Arizona or Utah.

We’re looking for a reporter who:

• Has at least a five-year track record of producing investigative stories, ideally in the Southwest, and a vision for how they’d cover this region and its diverse communities.
• Relishes pursuing accountability stories that are both important and powerfully told.
• Embraces, and has experience with, a wide range of reporting techniques, from underpinning stories with exclusive data analyses to using creative strategies to engage with readers and sources.
• Brings an accountability lens to issues of the day through both quick investigations reported over a couple of weeks and longer projects that take a few months (or more) to land.
• Really likes working with others. We are a highly collaborative newsroom — we collaborate within our team and across the newsroom, and with other news organizations regionally and nationally. We believe we do our best work together.
• Can travel, as needed, for assignments, training and staff meetings.

This job is full time and includes benefits. We will consider applicants who already live in or are willing to relocate to our Southwest coverage area. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.

The expected salary range for this position is $95,000 to $140,000.

This is a good-faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position. The final salary figure will take into account a person’s experience, accomplishment and location. ProPublica is committed to paying its staff equitably, and these ranges should not be considered career salary limits or caps.

We will begin reviewing applications as we receive them, but we will continue to consider candidates as long as the posting remains live on our site.

Questions? Send an email to talent@propublica.org.

No phone calls, please.

Applications will be accepted through at least May 15, 2026, at 12:00 PM ET.

Engagement reporters do ProPublica’s signature crowdsourced investigations, using everything from callouts and tip lines to citizen-fueled science. As an engagement reporter, you’ll team up with colleagues across the country to gather evidence and receipts for hard-hitting, community-driven stories. You may also work with external partners on long- and short-term projects through our Local Reporting Network. You’ll find and reach people who have important stories to tell, figure out how to include them in the reporting process and work on journalism that could help improve their lives. You’ll likely come across more stories and new leads in the process.

Like everyone in our newsroom, our team focuses on accountability journalism and measures success by impact. We’ve worked with communities to tell thousands of people’s stories, including educators, parents, mental health providers, wildfire survivors, migrant dairy farm workers, vulnerable workers and residents living near toxic hot spots. We’ve filled information gaps with calculators, guides and letter generators. And we’ve done our best to reach people in the spaces where they gather, both online and off. This journalism has led to impact big and small, from equipping patients with better information to a promised $2 billion to fix Idaho public school buildings. 

What You’ll Do Here:

• Identify promising crowdsourcing opportunities and team up with other reporters to do investigative stories that rely on community outreach and engagement.
• Craft and manage callouts, surveys and other crowdsourcing tools for investigations. Help keep track of ProPublica’s extensive network of respondents to our previous callouts, and help reporters reengage relevant groups as reporting lines arise.
• Research communities and get to know people who live and work in the places we’re covering. Strategize methods to engage sources clearly, effectively and compassionately.
• Listen for, pitch and take the lead on service journalism opportunities, such as tools and guides.
• Review, flag and sometimes follow up on promising tips that come in through ProPublica’s newsroom tip lines. Identify themes and promising angles.
• Develop relationships with long-term community sources, such as union stewards, members of the clergy, Reddit moderators, petition managers and other local leaders.
• Collaborate with national, local and specialty reporting teams across ProPublica and in our many partner newsrooms, including through our Local Reporting Network.
• Brainstorm the biggest ideas you can imagine with a team of the most creative engagement journalists in the country. 

This job is full time and includes benefits. ProPublica is based in New York, but we’re open to remote candidates. We have offices in New York City; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Chicago; Phoenix; and Berkeley, California. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.

The expected salary range for this position is $85,000 to $120,000.

This is a good-faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position. The final salary figure will take into account a person’s experience, accomplishment and location. ProPublica is committed to paying its staff equitably, and these ranges should not be considered career salary limits or caps.

You Should Apply If:

• You have at least three years of journalism experience, either in reporting or an engagement-focused role. Most successful engagement reporters come from backgrounds in newsrooms, but we are open to people with skill sets from different industries.
• You’ve worked on stories that shed light on injustices and hold the powerful accountable. You don’t need to have done monthslong investigations, but you do need experience reporting. 
• You’ve got a track record of creative outreach. Perhaps you’ve run a Facebook group, optimized headlines for search, built a newsletter list or user-tested an app. Maybe you’ve produced events, A/B tested mass mailers, canvassed neighborhoods or set up a listening post. Online or off, you had a strategy and you adapted it along the way. 
• You’re an active, excellent listener and a thoughtful writer who can match your style to the occasion. You understand the difference between messaging the moderator of a Facebook group and emailing a PR person for comment.
• You’ve got a strong news sense, a keen eye for detail and the ability to connect the dots in investigations.
• You’ve got the ability to work independently and with teammates on collaborative projects. You like working with others, but you’re also proactive about finding opportunities and pushing projects forward on your own. 
• You have the patience and organizational acumen for long-term projects. You probably have opinions about spreadsheets.

This role will involve occasional travel for team retreats, conferences and reporting projects.

What You Should Send Us:

Work examples are the most important part of this application.

The application form will require you to send us three projects from your portfolio, and it will give you the space to walk us through your own contributions to those clips. Take advantage of this to tell us everything you did, from behind-the-scenes wins you’re proud of to how you helped your colleagues. Let us know how your engagement and outreach work shaped the output. Don’t be shy — tell us what succeeded, including numbers and evidence of impact, and feel free to share details on how you’d do it differently next time.

Make sure to read the section above, titled “You Should Apply If,” because it’s also our evaluation criteria for the position. Use your projects and the rest of your application to show us that you’ve got the skills we’ve listed or why the skills you have are the ones we actually need.                                    

We will begin reviewing applications as we receive them, but we will continue to consider candidates as long as the posting remains live on our site.

Questions? Send an email to talent@propublica.org. 

No phone calls, please.

ProPublica is looking for a collaborative and adaptable human resources manager to deliver strong customer service while helping to build the HR infrastructure to support a growing staff in a scaling organization.  

This role will oversee all aspects of our employee benefits strategy and programs, identify and deliver process improvements, assist on compensation and take on additional projects as needed. This is a unique moment in ProPublica’s history, when systems need to be improved to support the organization’s growth and strategy. The HR manager will need to take initiative while responding in a dynamic, evolving context.

This role will report to the human resources director, who reports to the chief financial and administrative officer. The HR manager will be joining a two-person department that supports more than 220 staff on all of our benefit programs, on- and off-boarding procedures, employee relations and performance management. The department works closely with our talent, finance and legal departments. The position will have no direct reports.

The HR manager will work closely with our HR coordinator, who is responsible for day-to-day benefit and leave administration.    

ProPublica has employees in more than 30 states (including California and New York). We have offices in New York City; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Chicago; Phoenix; and Berkeley, California. This role will be responsible (in collaboration with our legal department and the HR director) for ensuring all aspects of benefit-, leave- and compensation-related compliance in 30+ states. A high-level explanation of our benefits is available on our site.  

ProPublica has an employee union, and the HR director, manager and coordinator will assist in a variety of issues related to the union and in implementing the collective bargaining agreement currently being negotiated.

Specific Responsibilities

Benefits administration:

• Manage benefits renewal process, including evaluating and recommending benefits vendors as needed.  
• Working with members of the finance and HR team, play a primary role in the organizations’ benefits strategy, preparing recommendations to executive staff. 
• Lead the open enrollment process and all benefit-related staff communications throughout the year.
• Conduct market analysis to ensure ProPublica’s benefit offerings remain competitive. 
• Regularly review benefit processes; identify and implement improvements to billing, enrollment and documentation collection. 
• Drive staff benefit education. 
• Ensure 403(b) highlights document is up to date, respond to employee 403(b) queries and oversee the 403(b) hardship withdrawal and loan process.
• Within a union context, recommend competitive benefits programs that attract and retain top talent.

HR processes, compliance and customer service:

• Oversee the leave administration process. 
• Assist the HR director in responding to collective bargaining agreement or union-related inquiries.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable federal and state regulations (ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, etc.), working with our legal department as necessary; maintain and distribute all benefit plan documents and approve appropriate filings; oversee ACA and COBRA administration, which is handled by our HR coordinator on the Paylocity and Tilt platforms.
• Oversee HR processes in Paylocity and ensure standard operating procedures are up to date.
• Ensure that employees feel supported on all benefit processes and leave administration.
• Resolve and/or provide guidance on escalated employee benefit questions issues as needed. 
• Communicate benefit details as needed to job applicants. 
• Support our compensation administration across all departments by acting as point person for managers’ compensation questions around pricing jobs and offer approvals.
• Conduct initial FLSA status determinations.

Special projects as needed, such as: 

• Transitioning our performance management process to a new platform.
• Other initiatives identified by the HR director or chief financial and administrative officer as part of evolving the HR function and building the infrastructure to support the organization's growth and scaling.

Candidate Qualifications:

Experience:

• At least five years of progressive experience in human resources, including responsibility for health benefits, 403(b) benefits and leaves of absence required. 
• Previous experience serving in an HR capacity in a unionized environment required.
• Expertise supporting an employee base across multiple states strongly preferred.
• Prior experience benchmarking compensation and benefits preferred.

Knowledge:  

• Strong knowledge of compensation and benefits regulations, including ACA, FMLA, FLSA, COBRA and applicable state laws required.
• Knowledge of software applications used in benefits and office administration, including HRIS (Paylocity a plus), Google suite and Excel required.
• Familiarity with compensation structures preferred. 
• Knowledge of self-funded and fully insured benefit structures preferred.

Skills and abilities:

• We’re looking for a detail-oriented, self-starter who has the ability to multitask, prioritize and see the big picture.
• Proven ability to perform with a high degree of accuracy required.
• Ability to own improvement projects and HR processes from end to end (defining need/opportunity, developing operating plans, implementing/executing) required.
• Ability to adjust course and adapt when presented with new information, requirements or conditions. 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills required.
• Ability to handle confidential data with integrity and proven experience making balanced, risk-aware recommendations required.
• Ability to create and give clear presentations on complicated matters relating to health benefits and pharmaceutical plans required.                              

This job is full time and includes benefits. This position is based in New York and requires in-office work at least two days a week. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.

The expected salary range for this position is $110,000 to $140,000.

This is a good-faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position. The final salary figure will take into account a person’s experience, accomplishment and location. ProPublica is committed to paying its staff equitably, and these ranges should not be considered career salary limits or caps.

We will begin reviewing applications as we receive them, but we will continue to consider candidates as long as the posting remains live on our site.

Questions? Send an email to talent@propublica.org. 

No phone calls, please.

We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis beginning April 15, 2026. 

We are seeking a senior editor to lead ProPublica’s growing research team, guiding high-impact investigative work across the newsroom while supporting rigorous, collaborative and responsive research at scale.

The research team plays a critical role in many of ProPublica’s most impactful and widely read stories, contributing deep reporting, verification and sourcing to both long-term investigations and fast-turn accountability journalism. Research reporters regularly earn co-bylines and contributor credits across text, audio and video projects, and they collaborate closely with reporters, editors and partner newsrooms across the country.

Researchers typically balance two to three long-term projects while fielding short-term needs, providing expertise in public records, financial and government research, open-source intelligence and advanced verification.

This role reports to the assistant managing editor, national. You’ll lead ProPublica’s seven-member research team that works collaboratively across our national, local, Texas and Local Reporting Network desks.

As Senior Editor, Research, You Will: 

• Help build and maintain strong relationships with editors, reporters and partner newsrooms, ensuring research is integrated early and effectively into reporting.
• Serve as an escalation point for research reporters and newsroom staff, helping resolve complex reporting challenges, tight deadlines and sensitive sourcing or verification issues.
• Manage and prioritize newsroom projects in collaboration with senior editors and newsroom leadership, balancing urgent newsroom needs with longer-term investigative projects.
• Assign research work, shape strategy and ensure consistent, high-quality research support across desks, beats and regions.
• Provide hands-on editorial guidance to research reporters, including coaching on records strategies, advanced sourcing, database use, OSINT techniques and verification.
• Collaborate closely with reporters and editors to define research goals, frame investigations and connect the dots across large volumes of information.
• Effectively manage a substantial research resources budget, including contract   negotiations for relevant research tools and resources.
• Hire, onboard, mentor and provide performance feedback for a distributed research staff, including a deputy research editor and freelancers, as needed.
• Promote a collaborative, inclusive and supportive team culture that values rigor, curiosity and shared success.

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have: 

• At least 10 years of newsroom, investigative or research experience, with at least five years of experience managing a research team, ideally in a journalism capacity. We will prioritize candidates who have managed and supervised staff.
• Significant in-depth research experience, ideally in the investigative journalism context, but we’re also open to candidates with deep government or academic research skills that can be useful to our work. 
• Prior experience managing a budget, negotiating subscription and database contracts and serving as the contact for vendors. 
• Demonstrated ability to identify and quickly use emerging technologies and applications relevant to investigative research.
• Experience building morale and fostering professional growth in a geographically distributed team.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with an appetite for working across the newsroom and with external partners. 
• Exceptional organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proven ability to manage multiple projects, meet tight deadlines and perform effectively under pressure. 
• Willingness and ability to travel occasionally for staff retreats, trainings or other required events.

This job is full time and includes benefits. This role is open to remote candidates, but preference will be given to applicants located in or willing to relocate to the New York City or Washington, D.C., areas. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.

The expected salary range for this position is $150,000 to $170,000.

This is a good-faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position. The final salary figure will take into account a person’s experience, accomplishment and location. ProPublica is committed to paying its staff equitably, and these ranges should not be considered career salary limits or caps.

Questions? Send an email to talent@propublica.org. 

No phone calls, please.

We are seeking to hire experienced investigative reporters to cover national security issues in Washington. ProPublica’s D.C. bureau will tackle the most urgent investigative targets, and reporters will have the time and resources to pursue stories with creativity and ambition. We’re looking for reporters who are invigorated by the challenges of working in a dizzying news environment and skilled at identifying important investigative angles for stories that others have missed. We want reporters who have a record of producing stories that combine the kind of rigor that is a hallmark of the best accountability journalism with the narrative style of the best magazines. And we’re looking for reporters who have done stories that surprise, expose harm, deliver life-altering revelations, uncover the secret workings of the national security apparatus and bring about change.

We’re looking for reporters with:

• At least five years of experience producing original accountability journalism and a talent for, and dedication to, digging for the truth.
• Experience covering national security issues; you should be sourced and able to hit the ground running on impactful stories. Previous investigative work in Washington is a plus, though not required. 
• Storytelling chops and the ability to deliver findings in ways that connect with readers, as either riveting narratives or muscular, vivid investigative reports.
• A vision for what you’d like to cover at ProPublica.
• Experience with a wide range of reporting techniques, from underpinning stories with exclusive data analysis to using creative strategies to engage with readers and sources. 
• An ability to bring an accountability lens to the issues of the day through quick investigations reported over a couple of weeks and longer projects that may require months (or more) of digging.
• The instincts to pursue urgent, high-stakes stories that are central to the national conversation or crisis of a given moment, which can require carving out a lane amid competition.
• A knack for working with others. We are a highly collaborative newsroom, both across our teams and with other news organizations regionally and nationally. We believe we do our best work together.
• An ability to travel as required.

This job is full time and includes benefits. This role will be based in ProPublica’s Washington, D.C., office, so candidates should live within the D.C. metropolitan area or be willing to relocate. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.

The expected salary range for this position is $140,000 to $180,000.

This is a good-faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position. The final salary figure will take into account a person’s experience, accomplishment and location. ProPublica is committed to paying its staff equitably, and these ranges should not be considered career salary limits or caps.

We will begin reviewing applications as we receive them, but we will continue to consider candidates as long as the posting remains live on our site.

Questions? Send an email to talent@propublica.org. 

No phone calls, please.

While the vast majority of ProPublica’s work comes from our staff, we occasionally consider supporting ambitious accountability stories or projects from independent journalists whose ideas align with the mission of our organization.

Here’s what journalists submitting proposals should know.

We’re open to investigations that are revelatory or substantially advance what is known on a subject of importance. The investigation should have the potential to trigger needed reforms by identifying a problem, who’s responsible and what should change. It should also clearly show harm. The investigation can be rooted in a place or focus on a person, but it should illuminate an issue of broader relevance.

The best proposals have a clear hypothesis, typically based on significant reporting: They don’t wonder whether something bad is happening, they know it. Please include not only a general description of the topic, but also a sense of the anecdotes/data/documents you have gathered, what you expect to find and possible accountability stories you want to tell.

In addition, applicants should detail, as much as is possible at the outset, what an investigation will require: data work, travel, obtaining public records. It’s also important for us to know what data, documents and/or source relationships the reporter already has. Finally, we’d like to hear a bit about why you are particularly suited to do this investigation.

We will begin reviewing applications as we receive them, and aim to notify candidates regarding your proposals within two weeks of submission. Questions? Send an email to talent@propublica.org. No phone calls, please.

For those proposals we accept, we pay competitive freelance rates, including reporting expenses. Freelancers are independent contractors and will not be treated by ProPublica as employees for any purpose.

Independent contractors are responsible for paying any required taxes on any compensation received and for understanding the applicable tax laws. We will begin reviewing applications as we receive them, and aim to notify candidates regarding your proposals within two weeks of submission. 

We are seeking an experienced investigative journalist to help expand our coverage of the Pentagon and the U.S. armed forces. The Department of Defense is the government’s largest agency, with a budget of nearly $1 trillion. Its operations at home and abroad are testing long-standing alliances and rules of engagement, just as policy changes have made its activities, and its leaders, harder to scrutinize. We’re looking for someone to add to ProPublica’s long history of holding this branch of government to account through deep reporting that has an impact.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of breaking through the wall of secrecy surrounding so much of what the U.S. military does; an insider’s understanding of its hierarchy, codes and traditions; and an outsider’s healthy curiosity and skepticism. They will be knowledgeable about the connections between the various agencies and the companies that influence or benefit from national security policies. They will have the kinds of sources who help them to both get behind the scenes of how decisions and policies are made and document their impact. And they will have demonstrated an ability to responsibly handle sensitive information. 

This reporter will be based in ProPublica’s Washington, D.C., office and will be part of a team assigned to nail big scoops and land agenda-setting investigations. Candidates must be willing to collaborate not only with their colleagues on the military beat but also with those working in other coverage areas.

We're Looking for Someone With:

• At least five years of experience producing original accountability journalism and a talent for, and dedication to, digging for the truth. Your portfolio should show that you are already doing this work.
• A vision for how they’d approach military investigations for ProPublica. You should strive to report and write stories that are both important and powerfully told.
• Expertise covering defense and national security; you should be sourced and able to hit the ground running on impactful stories.
• Experience with a wide range of reporting techniques, from underpinning stories with exclusive data analysis to using creative strategies to engage with readers and sources.
• Demonstrated storytelling skills. You should be a skilled investigative storyteller, capable of delivering findings in ways that connect with readers, either as riveting narratives or muscular, vivid investigative reports.
• An ability to bring an accountability lens to the issues of the day through quick investigations reported over a couple of weeks as well as longer projects that may require months (or more) of digging.
• The instincts to pursue urgent, high-stakes stories that are central to the national conversation or crisis of a given moment, which can require carving out a lane amid competition.
• Prior experience and an affinity for working with others. We are a highly collaborative newsroom, both across our teams and with other news organizations regionally and nationally. We believe we do our best work together.
• The ability to travel, as needed, for assignments, training and staff meetings.

This job is full time and includes benefits. This role will be based in ProPublica’s Washington, D.C., office, so candidates should live within the metropolitan area or be willing to relocate. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.

The expected salary range for this position is $135,000 to $165,000.

This is a good-faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position. The final salary figure will take into account a person’s experience, accomplishment and location. ProPublica is committed to paying its staff equitably, and these ranges should not be considered career salary limits or caps.

We will begin reviewing applications as we receive them, but we will continue to consider candidates as long as the posting remains live on our site.

Questions? Send an email to talent@propublica.org. 

No phone calls, please.