Reporting Fellow, Climate

Crooked Media is seeking a Reporting Fellow, Climate, based in Washington, DC or California, to enhance climate reporting across its network for a six-month project. Ideal candidates are skilled reporters with experience in climate journalism, capable of producing content for newsletters, podcasts, and social media. Responsibilities include researching stories, pitching segments, and collaborating with partners. The role offers competitive pay ($120,000 - $150,000) and excellent benefits, including paid healthcare and generous vacation.
Crooked believes that we need a better conversation about politics, culture, and the world around us—one that doesn’t just focus on what’s broken, but what we can do to fix it. We are a media network that showcases stories, voices, and opportunities for activism that inform, entertain, and inspire action, because it’s up to all of us to do our part to build a better world.

Job Summary:

Crooked is hiring for a Reporting Fellow, Climate who will contribute climate reporting and coverage across the Crooked network. Qualified candidates are strong reporters who can write clearly about a wide range of climate-related events on deadline; nimbly grab comment from policymakers; pitch smart angles and guests to Crooked podcasts; and efficiently synthesize climate news into witty and accessible summaries for newsletter, social and podcast audiences. We are looking for someone with a sense of fun, even in the midst of a climate crisis and intense news cycles.

This is a six-month project funded by a nonprofit partner with the option to renew. Qualified candidates must be based or willing to relocate to either California or D.C. to be considered. Candidates may be subject to travel as assignments require.

How You’ll Spend Your Time:
• Report climate stories for Crooked’s news products, including the What A Day newsletter, video channels and podcast
• Research, pitch and produce climate segments for other Crooked network shows and platforms
• Identify and facilitate reporting and copublishing partnerships with news organizations who share our commitment to addressing the climate crisis
• Work with Crooked media’s social team to create shareable climate content
• Identify other potential opportunities and events to highlight climate coverage for our audience

What You’ll Bring To The Table:
• Climate reporting experience. You’ll bring in a robust story list and a deep list of sources
• Comfort producing content across platforms: digital, audio and video
• A sense of humor
• A collaborative approach
• Able and willing to work flexible hours, under tight deadline pressure, including breaking news
• Self-motivated, reliably able to hit deadlines

Pay and Perks:

At Crooked, we believe in paying employees at or above market rates that are informed by salary surveys and industry benchmarks. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer full-time employees excellent benefits including:
• Paid healthcare
• 401k match
• Generous vacation
• 20 weeks of paid parental leave
• Did we also mention our offices are closed at the end of the year?

Once we’re ready to extend an offer, we look at the individual’s years of relevant experience and other compensable factors to determine a competitive offer. And for this role, the starting annual salary range is $120,000 - $150,000.