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Job ID: 72580

Job Views: 180

Location: Sacramento, California, United States

Postal Code: 95835

Job Category: Newspapers,Television,Online | New Media

Employment Type: Full time

Salary: 68640-72000 USD per year

Posted: 06.10.2025

Job Description

Summary: PBS KVIE has an exciting opportunity to join our creative, talented, and mission-driven team as an Education Reporter. This new position plays a critical role in PBS KVIE's efforts to produce high-quality, impactful news content across digital platforms that engages and informs our community. The Sacramento region is home to nearly 400,000 public school students, and our Education Reporter will serve a vital audience of parents and educators in some of Northern California’s largest and most dynamic school districts.

Essential Functions

• Produces consistent and compelling content about how decisions made by school districts in the Sacramento region directly impact the lives of students and their families.
• Contributes to morning newsletters, with potential to produce an education-specific newsletter.
• Produces content across multiple platforms, including online stories and social media.
• Plays a critical watchdog role on the Sacramento region’s school districts, with a focus on the region’s largest districts.
• Covers, as needed, the Sacramento region’s two- and four-year colleges, with an emphasis on students and their academic and cultural experiences.
• In addition to daily news content, produces compelling, deeply-reported enterprise stories that provide context to the issues defining education in the Sacramento region.
• Moderates or presents at public-facing events, both in-person and broadcast, focused on education issues and the audiences they affect.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
  
  

• Must be mission-driven and passionate about the role of public media.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Effective and proactive communication skills.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time effectively.
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively with diverse stakeholders as a team.
• Positively and professionally represents PBS KVIE throughout the community.
• Familiarity and experience with training materials, academic approaches and evaluation structures, ideally in the journalism field.
• Ability to coach contributors on digital-first storytelling formats for the news services’ website and social media.
• Strong editorial judgment with a commitment to journalistic integrity.
• Deep familiarity with the Sacramento region or Northern California’s concerns, communities, and landscape.
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing

• Industries

  Newspaper Publishing

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