What are we about?
Remapping Debate is a small, vibrant, not-for-profit online news journal with stable funding and a mission to counter the profoundly destructive assumption that undergirds most reporting: that existing U.S. domestic public policies reflect nothing more than submission to inevitable facts of life that always have been and always will be.
What are we looking for you to do?
Be the rare journalist who has the opportunity and responsibility to work full-time on stories of substance. Covering a wide range of subjects, you will inform your reporting with deep context and rigor, always including probing and challenging interviews of policy makers and advocates as part of your inquiries.
In short, you will deploy all the skills you have honed as a professional historian in the service of genuine, transformative journalism.
Pay and benefits
This position has a starting salary of $60,000, offers 100% employer-paid health insurance premiums, and provides eight weeks of annual paid vacation.
When?
We will consider applications both from those who are available to start now and from those who are availiable to start in September 2012.
Where?
Our office is in the Flatiron district of Manhattan, but we will give full consideration to outstanding candidates regardless of location (i.e, we are comfortable with an arrangement where you work with us full-time from your “remote location”).
How do you apply?
Please use the web form at the right of this page, and be sure to: (1) explain with specificity the nature of your interest in the work of Remapping Debate; (2) describe why we can be confident that you will be able to make the transition to the deadline-driven world of journalism; (3) provide your analysis of the role that underlying assumptions held by media sources play in constricting and concealing fundamental decisions about the direction of public policy; and (4) include examples of your written work.
Thank you.