NBC 5 Chicago (WMAQ) is seeking a dynamic, deeply sourced, and enterprising political and investigative journalist. This person should be a news breaker that our viewers trust to get them answers on issues that affect their lives. They should focus on audience impact and providing context for stories of multiple lengths and formats across linear television, streaming, social media, and digital publishing.

Why This Role Matters

Trust is at an all-time low in many facets of everyday life. Our communities need journalists who fight for them and remind them why they should care what’s happening at city hall, in the state house, and our nation’s capital. They should expose waste and mismanagement, explain complicated topics and provide easily digestible takeaways, and do so in an empathetic and relatable way. It’s someone who looks and talks like them. A person who they know has their back and that they want to watch to better understand the world they’re living through.

What You’ll Do

• Break news on issues that affect viewers in the Chicago market
• Research, develop, write, and produce short, medium, and long-term investigative news stories and projects
• Deliver reports regularly on all platforms in multiple formats
• Tell stories through the lens of viewer impact on their life, neighborhood, family, happiness, and physical, mental, and financial wellness
• Craft compelling stories that viewers can connect with and want to watch
• Contribute to breaking and developing news stories by contributing to both the overall newsgathering process and by producing reporting for airing/publishing
• Host special programming across platforms
• Nurture relationships with a variety of sources that allow you to contribute to any relevant storyline we’re covering
• Recruit new viewers to your reporting and our brand across multiple platforms including social media
• Iterate on new storytelling methods with photojournalists and leadership
• Be a great teammate that contributes to the mission and vision of the unit
• Work in concert with newsroom leadership and the NBC News Group Legal and Standards team to conduct and present legal, accurate, and ethical reports