IPR is looking for a reporter to cover climate change in partnership with Grist.
This reporter will cover climate impacts, environmental health, and solutions to the climate crisis, primarily for a local and regional audience.
We’re looking for someone who can understand and explain the importance of the Upper Great Lakes to regional, national, and global ecosystems. This is a place where vast forests and sweeping sand dunes converge with one of the world’s largest sources of freshwater. You’ll pay attention to pressing issues like the future of the controversial Line 5 pipeline, energy policy in the state that popularized the internal combustion engine but also has ambitious climate goals, and the impact of climate change on the surrounding region and its people.
We want the focus here to be on solutions: How are people working to address problems? Can those solutions be scaled up to statewide or national levels? What are the drawbacks? This reporter should be comfortable covering local impacts of climate change, but also expanding those stories to have regional, statewide, or even national significance.
Through Grist’s partnership with Interlochen Public Radio, you’ll get to work with the award-winning Points North podcast team, and file everything from daily news stories to features and other enterprise reporting. We want your work to be heard and read widely, so you’ll also be encouraged to pitch features to NPR for national broadcast, and share with listeners statewide through the Michigan Public Radio Network.
This position is based at IPR's studios in Interlochen, Michigan, which is located in the beautiful Grand Traverse region of the state's lower peninsula, near Traverse City, Grand Traverse Bay and Lake Michigan.