Responsibilities:
• Accepts story assignments.
• Meets assigned deadlines.
• Covers and maintains a beat assignment, including consistent updates to a beat binder.
• Writes in-depth or investigative stories.
• Writes breaking news stories, as assigned by editor.
• Attends staff meetings.
• Generates story ideas.
• Coaches rookie writers in reporting and writing, to improve the overall quality of the paper.
• Reports to appropriate section editor.