CT job listing: Visiting Journalist at Manchester High School

Visiting Journalist at Manchester High School

Overview

Manchester High School is seeking a visiting journalist to help shape all elements of MHSRedline (our school website), its companion print newspaper (called The Harbinger) and our Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Vine accounts, while drawing on other resources (including our yearbook, photography and broadcast journalism classes) as we create the best high school communications operation in the country.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

You would work with our students, helping them

• understand the role of journalism/journalists in the 21^st century.
• write timely, accurate and compelling news and feature stories
• shoot photographs and video that are revealing and entertaining
• learn the importance of ‘digital first’ as we share content in real time through social media
• create strategies to build our audience across all platforms
• edit and design our newspaper
• make discoveries that keep us on the cutting edge

Time commitment

This is a grant-funded position that lasts from August 2013 to June 2014. You would be expected to assist our journalism teacher during two classes each week from Aug. 29 (our first full day of school) through late January, and then once a week from February through June.  (The class meets from 12:35-2:05 p.m. every other day, so visits typically would be either M/W or T/Th depending on our rotating schedule cycle.) You would be expected to attend occasional school events such as the Homecoming Parade, Miss MHS Pageant, perhaps a prom. You would also be expected to be available on an at-least-checking-email basis nights and weekends, as we are an 18/7 operation.

Experience & qualifications

Applicants should:

Have journalism experience, both print and digital

Be savvy with social media

Be familiar with WordPress and Camayak

Applicants must:

Love working with high school students

Have high standards and integrity

Compensation

$10,000

Application instructions

Please send resume and a cover letter to mgeary@manchesterct.gov

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.