Come chase stories with us: Miami New Times is hiring

Miami New Times isn’t interested in being the paper of record. We’re the publication people turn to when they want to knowwhat’s really happening in South Florida. Increasingly, that means telling stories in more ways than one.

Our reporters chase government corruption, political power plays, sketchy real estate deals, criminal justice stories, internet-famous grifters, viral weirdness and Miami’s infinite cast of bizarre characters. It all feeds into breaking news, rich investigations and features that feel like a Netflix documentary series on the page.

Now we’re looking for a multimedia reporter who can do that like a polished pro — with a notebook, a camera or a microphone.

Our ideal reporter is curious, ambitious, and fearless, with sharp reporting instincts and an engaging voice. You can spin up a break story on deadline or spend weeks meticulously excavating public records. You know when a story needs 1,500 words — and when a 60-second video from the scene does the trick.

You’ll also devour Miami in greedy gulps. This is the greatest news city on the planet. So don’t babysit your inbox or get stuck scrolling your feed. Get out of the office, talk to people, build sources, ask uncomfortable questions and bring back the stories that only Miami New Times can tell.

What you’ll do

Your days won’t look the same. You might spend a morning chasing breaking news, an afternoon filming a vertical video, and the next several days working on an enterprise story or investigation.

You’ll:

• Report and write everything from fast-moving breaking and trending news to deeply reported enterprise, investigations, and features.
• Produce original vertical video and other multimedia journalism that feels native to the platform — not simply an article read into a camera.
• Help develop podcasts and other audio storytelling.
• Get out into Miami. Attend public meetings, town halls, political rallies, court proceedings, and community events, and talk to the people actually affected by the decisions you’re covering.
• Use social media as a reporting tool to spot stories, find sources, follow conversations, and understand what South Florida is talking about.
• Develop a broad and diverse network of sources across the Miami metro area.
• File and pursue public-records requests and use documents and data to strengthen your reporting.
• Work with editors, photographers, our social and product teams, and occasionally journalists in our sister newsrooms in Phoenix, Denver, and Dallas.
• Contribute guides and service journalism that help readers understand what’s happening in their city.
• Participate in our annual Best of Miami issue and other newsroom projects.

This job sometimes requires nights and weekends. News, unfortunately, has never been particularly respectful of business hours.

What we’re looking for

You don’t need to know everything about Miami on day one. You do need to be relentlessly fascinated with it.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Excellent reporting and writing skills and the ability to produce clean, compelling copy on deadline.
• Strong news instincts and the ability to recognize a story — especially one other reporters haven’t noticed yet.
• Experience producing and appearing in video, particularly short-form or vertical video.
• An interest in experimenting with new ways of telling stories across video, audio, and social platforms.
• The ability to make complicated subjects understandable without making them boring.
• Interest in a wide range of beats, including politics, government, criminal justice, public health, labor, cannabis and the environment.
• Experience filing and working with public-records requests.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to juggle breaking news, longer-term reporting, and multimedia projects without losing track of a deadline.
• Initiative. We want someone who comes to editors with story ideas, not someone waiting to be handed an assignment.

We’re less interested in the perfect résumé than we are in finding someone with a reporter’s instinct: someone smart, hungry and resourceful who sees something strange, important or unexplained and immediately wants to know more.

Why Miami New Times

Miami is one of the strangest, most fascinating news environments in America. Local stories routinely become national ones. Wealth, politics, immigration, development, crime, culture and internet absurdity collide here constantly.

There is always another story. We want someone who wants to chase it — and figure out the most compelling way to tell it.

Compensation and benefits

This is a union position based in our Miami office with a hybrid work policy.

• Salary: $52,000-$56,000
• 401(k) with company match
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 10 paid holidays
• 14 days of paid time off
• 5 paid sick days per year

Miami New Times believes our journalism best serves South Florida when the people producing it reflect the communities we cover. We’re committed to building a newsroom where people with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are respected and empowered to do their best work.

Women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color, and gender-nonconforming candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Think you’ve got what it takes?

Send us a cover letter (tell us what you’ve done, what you want to do next, and, most importantly, what kinds of stories you want to chase in Miami), résumé, and links to up to three stories at mia-staff-writer@voicemediagroup.com.