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117 S. 3rd St., Marion KS 66861 | +1 (888) 382-2165 | fax +1 (620) 382-2262
Our rural weekly — seized but not silenced in an illegal police raid — now faces a more significant challenge: finding two enterprising reporters to join our depleted staff.
We offer a competitive full-time salary, fully paid health insurance, and potential for a year-end profit-sharing bonus to engaging storytellers willing to relocate to our otherwise quaint community and practice journalism the way it was meant to be.
Join a 12-member team responsible for producing more than 200 statewide awards over five years at what has been judged the best mid-size non-daily in Kansas for news and writing three years running.
We pride ourselves on reporting the unexpected, with a strong focus on human faces and dramatic storytelling, enterprising features, engaging photos and aggressive investigation, with ample opportunity for reporters to pursue stories of their choosing.
Our readers literally line up to pick up their papers each week, and our paid website records unprecedentedly high numbers for visit duration and frequency.
Forget cheap, formulaic approaches that consign ever-dwindling numbers of reporters to attending ever-increasing numbers of governmental meetings or to toiling endlessly on a treadmill of breaking news coverage and knee-jerk social media and video posting that never give reporters a chance to shine.
We view ourselves as a vitally important, locally owned community service, and we want our journalists to be not just reporters but also active community members.
Our location may seem a bit out of the way, on the west edge of the Flint Hills in central Kansas, but it is center stage for demonstrating that the future of journalism is in high-quality, human-focused storytelling that matters.
An hour north of Wichita, we’re nestled between two resort lakes in a low-cost rural county seat that considers itself a thriving community for the arts, with nationally ranked schools, top-notch public facilities and a wealth of historic buildings.
We’re hoping to hire dedicated and experienced Fourth Estate practitioners but will consider recent graduates, who if from out of state may qualify for a matching-funds program that provides up to $15,000 in student loan forgiveness and waiver of state income taxes for up to five years.
Send your resume and a minimum of three samples of your work along with a letter describing your approach to journalism to publisher Eric Meyer at job@mnks.us.