Audience and Collaboration Strategist

The Texas Tribune is hiring an Audience and Collaboration Strategist to expand and deepen connections with audiences and other news organizations across Texas and maximize the impact of our most ambitious accountability and investigative journalism.

The position is part of a collaboration between the Tribune and ProPublica, which partnered five years ago to form a joint investigative unit focused on this diverse and critical state. The Texas Tribune-ProPublica Investigative Unit uncovers big stories that matter to Texans and the nation, taking aim at corruption, injustice and malfeasance across Texas.

In the coming year, the Tribune and ProPublica will launch a new initiative to collaborate with five newsrooms across Texas on accountability and investigative projects. These partnerships will provide local newsrooms with stipends, training, access to a dedicated editor, and other resources to support reporting on a single, impactful topic.

The Audience and Collaboration Strategist will ensure that the work of the joint investigative unit and Tribune enterprise team finds a broad and meaningful audience. This includes developing distribution strategies for social media and thinking creatively about new and unconventional promotion strategies that ensure the people and communities that need to know about our journalism are exposed to it. For example, making printable items for connecting with readers in person or collaborating with an audience team for a series of videos to run across multiple platforms.

The minimum salary is $60,000, but the pay for this position will depend on experience. Candidates with extensive experience are encouraged to apply. This is a grant-funded position, for which five years of funding is secured.

This Audience and Collaboration Strategist would work with our joint investigative unit and play a vital part in ensuring the success of these partnerships.