The Investigative Reporter is responsible for developing, researching, producing, and presenting compelling investigative content across broadcast, digital, and social platforms. This role requires strong enterprise reporting skills, journalistic integrity, the ability to generate sources, and to deliver accurate, fair, and impactful storytelling.
Responsibilities / Job Duties:
- Gather news information and prepare content for on-air, online, and social media presentation.
- Present completed stories that are accurate, journalistically sound, fair, and balanced.
- Utilize public records requests (including FOIA and state-level equivalents), data analysis, and document review to uncover and develop investigative stories.
- Demonstrate ability to analyze datasets, identify patterns, and translate findings into compelling, viewer-friendly content.
- Ensure investigations are adapted appropriately across platforms to maximize reach and impact.
- Work closely with digital editors to create and optimize investigative content for web, OTT, and social platforms, including long-form articles, explainers, and interactive elements.
- Ability to verify digital content, authenticate sources, and detect mis/disinformation.
- Report live during newscasts and breaking news coverage as needed, both in studio and in the field.
- Write news stories daily for station newscasts, recorded programs, and other live station broadcastsâeither in studio or on location as needed.
- Collaborate with producers and news managers to develop, research, investigate, write, produce, and present consumer and investigative stories
- Coordinate, organize, conduct, and video-record interviews.
- Develop ongoing âsweepsâ and âspecial seriesâ stories.
- Represent NBC 10 at community-related events.
- Build and maintain relationships within the community to develop strong story leads.