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Research Reporter ProPublica. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. This posting will be open until at least Oct. 1, 2024.. . ProPublica is looking for an experienced research reporter to help us uncover documents, data and sources for hard-hitting investigative projects. You’ll team up with reporters and editors to do the kind of deep digging required to put out rigorous, powerful investigations.. . Research reporters work as part of a highly collaborative team that partners with ProPublica reporters and editors and with the engagement, news applications, data, visuals and audience teams, as well as with other publishing partners, to cover a range of topics, and may also work with external partners on long- and short-term projects through the Local Reporting Network.. . What you would be doing:. . . Collaborating with sustainability desk colleagues and local partner newsrooms to execute stories that have great local significance and strong national resonance.. . Appraising story viability from a research perspective, communicating potential research paths or pitfalls, and helping to assess the national context for select local stories.. . Conducting broad news searches and academic or archival research.. . Conducting background research on people, companies, organizations or topics.. . Creating original datasets from publicly available data.. . Assisting reporters with best practices for using research tools and methods.. . . We’re looking for someone who has:. . . At least three years’ experience working as part of a collaborative group in a researcher or investigative reporter role.. . Excellent news sense, keen attention to detail and the ability to connect the dots in investigations.. . Experience with juggling multiple projects and many responsibilities at once. . Experience and comfort working collaboratively with distributed colleagues across the country.. . Ability to prioritize in a dynamic, multiproject team environment. You should be able to meet deadlines and handle pressure while remaining calm.. . Strong organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills.. . Demonstrated ability to search legal resources such as PACER, CourtLink, Westlaw and local court systems.. . Demonstrated ability to use aggregated public records such as Nexis, TLO, Accurint, Ancestry or Pipl, and news sources such as Bloomberg, Factiva or NewsBank.. . Facility searching social media.. . Ability to review large document sets and extract relevant information with accuracy.. . Excellent communication skills and ability to synthesize information for others is a must.. . Expertise in identifying, obtaining, searching and deciphering public records. Ability to file targeted, fruitful FOIA requests is a must.. . Strong understanding of government documents, agencies and processes at the federal and local levels.. . Available for occasional travel for staff retreats, reporting assignments or other required events.. . . This job is full time and includes benefits. (. Read more about ProPublica’s benefits.. ) ProPublica is based in New York, but we’re open to remote candidates. We have locations in New York City; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Chicago; Austin, Texas; Phoenix; and Berkeley, California. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.. . The expected salary range for this position is $80,000 to $100,000.. . 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, through at least Oct. 1.. . Questions? Send an email to. [email protected]. .. . No phone calls, please.. Please mention the word **PASSIONATELY** and tag RMTA0LjE1NC4yMDcuNTI= when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTA0LjE1NC4yMDcuNTI=). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human..