Find new career opportunities for education reporters and communications professionals. Looking for an experienced education writer for your next project? Post your listing now!
Find new career opportunities for education reporters and communications professionals. Looking for an experienced education writer for your next project? Post your listing now!
Education Dive is seeking full-time freelance writers for its K-12 and higher education daily newsletters to write short news briefs and/or longer-form feature articles. Our readers are college and K-12 school administrators, not faculty members, teachers or staff.
Higher Learning Advocates is seeking a Communications Associate Director/Manager (title based on experience) who will be responsible for developing the organization’s messaging and implementing its communications and media outreach strategies. Based in Washington, DC, the Communications Associate Director/Manager will require an understanding of media and outreach strategies, innovative approaches to reach key audiences, and a commitment to the organization’s mission.
POLITICO’s mission from the very beginning was to win the audience. We dedicate ourselves to providing accurate, non-partisan, impactful information to the right people at the right time so that they can act with confidence and speed. We experiment to avoid being disrupted and we have fun disrupting others. And we are not afraid to risk failure if it means being the best at what we do.
The Hechinger Report, the nonprofit, independent news organization that covers inequality and innovation in education, seeks a digital news producer to help prepare stories and newsletters for publication and to manage social media. This position will be based in New York.
The Consumer Advice team at U.S. News & World Report seeks an experienced, full-time reporter based in our Washington, D.C., office who will be responsible for writing and updating content for the Education section.
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) fosters literary achievement, advances the art of writing as essential to a good education, and serves the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary writing. Established in 1967, the organization has grown to provide support, advocacy, resources, and community to nearly 50,000 writers, 550 university and college creative writing programs, and 200 literary organizations, publishers, writers’ conferences, and centers.
Program at a glance: Reporters from around the country have used the O’Brien Fellowship to produce great investigative projects annually since 2013. Their journalism has examined deaths of mentally ill inmates in America’s jails, overlooked stumbling blocks facing schools, exploitation of undocumented workers, national homicide trends, a failed mental health system, the dangers of diacetyl, climate change, and more.
The Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University, conducts rigorous research on expanding access to higher education and promoting success for all students. We are seeking an associate editor who will work closely with our researchers to ensure that all of our publications are of the highest quality.
Online Schools Report is looking for a freelance journalist for a longform report on the State of Online Education going into 2019.
The report will be data driven, but include interviews and analysis. We have a team of researchers who can help with scraping/analyzing data. We have a skeleton of an article, but we want an experienced higher education reporter to flesh it out.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal is seeking an experienced reporter with a nose for news to cover higher education in Southern Nevada. This is a busy beat that should regularly produce front-page stories and drive significant online traffic. We are looking for a strong writer who can write with context, clarity and conciseness.
The ideal candidate is able to work well under deadline pressure, develop sources and take complicated issues and make the reader understand them. He or she is a storyteller with initiative, ideas and energy. Narrative writing skills are a plus.
Chalkbeat, the growing nonprofit news organization telling the story of education in America, is seeking motivated undergraduate or graduate students to serve as summer reporting interns. Our reporting teams cover schools in seven places — Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Memphis, Newark, and New York City — and we have a national bureau covering education issues affecting schools across the country.
Reports to: Senior Director, Postsecondary Education
Department: Postsecondary Education
Staff reporting to this position: None
Position classification: Exempt, full time
Duties & Responsibilities
Lead a team of communications and marketing professionals in developing and implementing an integrated strategic communications, marketing and engagement plan that will advance HGSE’s strategic goals and objectives; amplify its voice; and enhance the HGSE brand to broaden its impact and enrich its reputation.
Reporting to the Director of Event Operations, the Assistant Director of Events leads the day-to-day events team to ensure the highest level of event and administrative support is provided to faculty, staff, students, and external clients.
• Manages a team of full time employees (currently 3)
• Manages and supports all aspects of events on-site at HGSE and off-site campus locations, including client communication, on-site management collaboration, establish event timelines, ensure special requests are met, etc.
The Hatcher Group, a communications firm that works on progressive social change, seeks a full-time senior associate to work with our education clients. We are looking for an outstanding writer with strong editing, media and social media skills. This person could work in our Bethesda, Baltimore or Annapolis offices, preferably Bethesda.
Forget the traditional education beat. We’re looking for a reporter who will cover issues, concerns, and news that matters to anyone who is raising and educating a child.
This is a beat with accountability at its core – how is the school system preparing our children? And it is also a beat about people – what is the best way for our family to raise our kids?
The Education Writers Association (EWA), the national professional organization supporting education journalists, is seeking an enthusiastic and mission-driven intern who will thrive in a challenging and dynamic work environment. Our paid interns play a key role in conveying the value of EWA to our members and other stakeholders.
Our interns should share EWA’s commitment to the value of independent professional journalism and embrace EWA’s mission to strengthen the community of education writers and improve the quality of education coverage to better inform the public.
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) is an innovative, digitally focused media and marketing solutions company committed to strengthening communities across our network. With an unmatched local-to-national reach, Gannett touches the lives of more than 110 million people monthly with our Pulitzer-Prize winning content, consumer experiences and benefits, and advertiser products and services. Gannett brands include USA TODAY NETWORK with the iconic USA TODAY and more than 100 local media brands, digital marketing services companies ReachLocal and SweetIQ, and U.K.
We’re different. We’re Industry Dive, and we’re on the cutting edge of business media.
We are seeking a reporter for Education Dive who will lead our coverage of the higher education industry — from breaking news daily briefs to in-depth original features that analyze trends and issues. You will stay on top of major news and trends, pitch stories, cultivate relationships with stakeholders and hunt down exclusives. You will also do some content and copy editing of briefs and occasionally travel to conferences.
Freelance Writers
Education Dive
Education Dive is seeking full-time freelance writers for its K-12 and higher education daily newsletters to write short news briefs and/or longer-form feature articles. Our readers are college and K-12 school administrators, not faculty members, teachers or staff.
You should:
Communications Associate Director/Manager
Higher Learning Advocates
Summary
Higher Learning Advocates is seeking a Communications Associate Director/Manager (title based on experience) who will be responsible for developing the organization’s messaging and implementing its communications and media outreach strategies. Based in Washington, DC, the Communications Associate Director/Manager will require an understanding of media and outreach strategies, innovative approaches to reach key audiences, and a commitment to the organization’s mission.
Responsibilities
Education Reporter
POLITICO
POLITICO’s mission from the very beginning was to win the audience. We dedicate ourselves to providing accurate, non-partisan, impactful information to the right people at the right time so that they can act with confidence and speed. We experiment to avoid being disrupted and we have fun disrupting others. And we are not afraid to risk failure if it means being the best at what we do.
Senior Director – Communications
Office of Policy and Public Affairs, KIPP Foundation
KIPP
Digital News Producer
The Hechinger Report
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The Hechinger Report, the nonprofit, independent news organization that covers inequality and innovation in education, seeks a digital news producer to help prepare stories and newsletters for publication and to manage social media. This position will be based in New York.
Responsibilities
Education Reporter (Paying for School) —Washington, D.C.
U.S. News & World Report
The Consumer Advice team at U.S. News & World Report seeks an experienced, full-time reporter based in our Washington, D.C., office who will be responsible for writing and updating content for the Education section.
Executive Director
Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)
Organization
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) fosters literary achievement, advances the art of writing as essential to a good education, and serves the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary writing. Established in 1967, the organization has grown to provide support, advocacy, resources, and community to nearly 50,000 writers, 550 university and college creative writing programs, and 200 literary organizations, publishers, writers’ conferences, and centers.
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
University of California, Irvine
JOB SUMMARY
Media Relations Director, Communications Team Policy and Public Affairs
KIPP Foundation
KIPP
Investigative Reporting Fellow
The O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism
Program at a glance: Reporters from around the country have used the O’Brien Fellowship to produce great investigative projects annually since 2013. Their journalism has examined deaths of mentally ill inmates in America’s jails, overlooked stumbling blocks facing schools, exploitation of undocumented workers, national homicide trends, a failed mental health system, the dangers of diacetyl, climate change, and more.
Coordinator, Communications
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Who Are We
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the leading national nonprofit dedicated to advancing the charter school movement.
What is the Role
Associate Editor
The Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University
The Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University, conducts rigorous research on expanding access to higher education and promoting success for all students. We are seeking an associate editor who will work closely with our researchers to ensure that all of our publications are of the highest quality.
Freelance Journalist
Online Schools Report
Online Schools Report is looking for a freelance journalist for a longform report on the State of Online Education going into 2019.
The report will be data driven, but include interviews and analysis. We have a team of researchers who can help with scraping/analyzing data. We have a skeleton of an article, but we want an experienced higher education reporter to flesh it out.
Topics include:
Seeking Experienced Higher Ed Reporter
The Las Vegas Review-Journal
The Las Vegas Review-Journal is seeking an experienced reporter with a nose for news to cover higher education in Southern Nevada. This is a busy beat that should regularly produce front-page stories and drive significant online traffic. We are looking for a strong writer who can write with context, clarity and conciseness.
The ideal candidate is able to work well under deadline pressure, develop sources and take complicated issues and make the reader understand them. He or she is a storyteller with initiative, ideas and energy. Narrative writing skills are a plus.
Senior Communications Manager
The Aspen Institute
Program/Dept: The Education and Society Program
Position Location: Washington, D.C.
FLSA Status: Exempt, Full-Time
About Us:
Summer 2019 Reporting Internship
Chalkbeat
Chalkbeat, the growing nonprofit news organization telling the story of education in America, is seeking motivated undergraduate or graduate students to serve as summer reporting interns. Our reporting teams cover schools in seven places — Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Memphis, Newark, and New York City — and we have a national bureau covering education issues affecting schools across the country.
Communications and Advocacy Manager, Postsecondary Education
American Progress
Reports to: Senior Director, Postsecondary Education
Department: Postsecondary Education
Staff reporting to this position: None
Position classification: Exempt, full time
Summary
Assistant Dean for Communications and Marketing
Harvard Graduate School of Education - 46959BR
Duties & Responsibilities
Lead a team of communications and marketing professionals in developing and implementing an integrated strategic communications, marketing and engagement plan that will advance HGSE’s strategic goals and objectives; amplify its voice; and enhance the HGSE brand to broaden its impact and enrich its reputation.
Strategy and Senior Leadership
Assistant Director of Events
Harvard Graduate School of Education - 47206BR
Duties & Responsibilities
Reporting to the Director of Event Operations, the Assistant Director of Events leads the day-to-day events team to ensure the highest level of event and administrative support is provided to faculty, staff, students, and external clients.
• Manages a team of full time employees (currently 3)
• Manages and supports all aspects of events on-site at HGSE and off-site campus locations, including client communication, on-site management collaboration, establish event timelines, ensure special requests are met, etc.
Detroit Reporter
Chalkbeat
Chalkbeat, the growing nonprofit news organization telling the story of education in America, is seeking a reporter to join our Detroit team.
Communications Senior Associate / Writer
The Hatcher Group
The Hatcher Group, a communications firm that works on progressive social change, seeks a full-time senior associate to work with our education clients. We are looking for an outstanding writer with strong editing, media and social media skills. This person could work in our Bethesda, Baltimore or Annapolis offices, preferably Bethesda.
Press Secretary
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
Organization
School Accountability and Culture Reporter
The Sacramento Bee
Description
Forget the traditional education beat. We’re looking for a reporter who will cover issues, concerns, and news that matters to anyone who is raising and educating a child.
This is a beat with accountability at its core – how is the school system preparing our children? And it is also a beat about people – what is the best way for our family to raise our kids?
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POSITION: Massachusetts Marketing and Communications Director
REPORTS TO: Massachusetts Executive Director
LOCATION: Boston, MA
Internship Available
Education Writers Association
The Education Writers Association (EWA), the national professional organization supporting education journalists, is seeking an enthusiastic and mission-driven intern who will thrive in a challenging and dynamic work environment. Our paid interns play a key role in conveying the value of EWA to our members and other stakeholders.
Our interns should share EWA’s commitment to the value of independent professional journalism and embrace EWA’s mission to strengthen the community of education writers and improve the quality of education coverage to better inform the public.
Reporter
The Greenville News and the USA Today Network
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) is an innovative, digitally focused media and marketing solutions company committed to strengthening communities across our network. With an unmatched local-to-national reach, Gannett touches the lives of more than 110 million people monthly with our Pulitzer-Prize winning content, consumer experiences and benefits, and advertiser products and services. Gannett brands include USA TODAY NETWORK with the iconic USA TODAY and more than 100 local media brands, digital marketing services companies ReachLocal and SweetIQ, and U.K.
Manager of Marketing and Outreach
Learning Policy Institute (LPI)
Who We Are
Reporter, Higher Education
Industry Dive
We’re different. We’re Industry Dive, and we’re on the cutting edge of business media.
We are seeking a reporter for Education Dive who will lead our coverage of the higher education industry — from breaking news daily briefs to in-depth original features that analyze trends and issues. You will stay on top of major news and trends, pitch stories, cultivate relationships with stakeholders and hunt down exclusives. You will also do some content and copy editing of briefs and occasionally travel to conferences.
What you can bring to the table: