Tennessee Lookout

The Tennessee Lookout is a nonprofit, nonpartisan watchdog news organization dedicated to telling the stories of politics and policy that affect the people of the Volunteer State. We expose the relationships between politics, people and policy and we hold the powerful accountable.

Open Position

Location: Nashville, Tennessee

Beat: The impact of state government in rural West Tennessee

Position:

Rural West Tennessee is becoming a strategic concern to the state, through the construction of Ford Motor Co.'s BlueOval City, a $5.6 billion, 3,600-acre "automotive manufacturing ecosystem" that is proposed to bring 11,000 jobs to what has been a farming area for the last 200 years. A focus on the impacts of new industry, including industrial poultry operations on rural Tennesseans, both environmentally and economically.

Salary and Benefits:
$50,000-$60,000 based on experience

We provide four weeks of vacation, health care/dental/vision benefits, $75 per month cell phone reimbursement, $75 per month fitness reimbursement, seven standard holidays and four floating holidays and two weeks of sick leave.

Skills: Reporting, Photography, Video, Experience covering the beat

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