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Reporter, Wildlife Watch
21st Century Fox
Washington, DC, United States
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OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANYNational Geographic
National Geographic Partners LLC (NGP), a joint venture between National Geographic and 21st Century Fox, is committed to bringing the world premium science, adventure and exploration content across an unrivaled portfolio of media assets. NGP combines the global National Geographic television channels (National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo WILD, Nat Geo MUNDO, Nat Geo PEOPLE) with National Geographic’s media and consumer-oriented assets, including National Geographic magazines; National Geographic studios; related digital and social media platforms; books; maps; children’s media; and ancillary activities that include travel, global experiences and events, archival sales, licensing and e-commerce businesses. Furthering knowledge and understanding of our world has been the core purpose of National Geographic for 129 years, and now we are committed to going deeper, pushing boundaries, going further for our consumers … and reaching millions of people around the world in 172 countries and 43 languages every month as we do it. NGP returns 27 percent of our proceeds to the nonprofit National Geographic Society to fund work in the areas of science, exploration, conservation and education. For more information visit natgeotv.com or nationalgeographic.com, or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
JOB DESCRIPTION
National Geographic Partners is seeking a reporter for Wildlife Watch, a small team within the Nat Geo newsroom that focuses on wildlife crime and exploitation. Wildlife Watch is funded by the National Geographic Society and seeks to shine a light on commercial-scale wildlife poaching, trafficking, and other exploitive activities. Wildlife Watch publishes news stories, explainers, features, and investigative pieces, with an aim toward creating impactful journalism that sheds light on animal welfare issues around the globe. We’re looking for someone with strong research, reporting and writing skills who can turn around stories quickly to help us maintain a drumbeat of wildlife crime coverage online, and who can produce occasional investigative pieces.
Responsibilities:
• Report and write news stories and the occasional enterprise/investigative feature on wildlife crime/exploitation while meeting National Geographic’s standards for accurate, authoritative reporting and writing.
• Generate story ideas and develop sources relevant to the beat.
• Monitor developments in wildlife crime/exploitation to stay on top of trends and break stories.
• Produce your own stories, and occasionally those of other writers, for the web using our content management system.
• Collaborate with the Wildlife Watch team’s editor, writers, photo editors, and social media editors for each of your stories.
• Be engaged on social media to monitor news events and build a smart, respectful, fact-based and authoritative dialogue with readers.
• Attend weekly Wildlife Watch meeting to pitch story ideas and to review any freelance pitches we've received.
• Through our engagement with the public, occasional public speaking opportunities may arise.
• Acts as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for integration of map services into digital products and services in coordination with NGP-DPT.
Requirements:
•At least 2 years of experience as a Reporter and news and some enterprise or investigative reporting experience is preferred
•Bachelor’s degree
•Experience covering wildlife/wildlife crime is preferred.
•Ability to turn around breaking stories quickly and file a clean copy
•Digitally proficient in online story production and social media
•Proven track record of accurate reporting and strong research skills
•Comfortable with FOIA and document-driven reporting
•Computer skills: Word, Social media platforms, and AEM content management system.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.