Photographer
Seeking photojournalist for award-winning news team
Join our award-winning newsroom. The Quad-City Times and Dispatch-Argus, daily newspapers in the Quad-Cities, are seeking a visual journalist to help drive our coverage in a competitive media market of nearly 385,000 people.
The ideal candidate will be an innovative, prolific and deadline-driven self-starter who is capable of producing compelling images for our digital and print platforms.
Experience with photojournalism and sports photography, videography, live-streaming video and multimedia journalism are highly desirable.
The photographer will work out of the Davenport, Iowa, newsroom.
Apply at https://lee.net/careers/ and search for Davenport as the location. When applying, please submit the following items: a cover letter; a resume detailing relevant journalism experience; and five examples of published journalism work.
Quad-Cities is a cluster of cities on the banks of the Mississippi River that offer an affordable lifestyle with bigger-city amenities. The digital and traditional print media platforms of the Quad-City Times and Dispatch-Argus are part of Lee Enterprises, a dynamic media company committed to local news - and acquiring and growing outstanding journalists.
What is in it for you?
Besides working with an amazing team, Lee Enterprises offers competitive wages in a supportive work environment with career growth opportunities. In addition, we offer a competitive and affordable benefit program, which includes medical, dental, vision, life, LTD, and STD. Our generous time off program includes paid parental leave for new parents, paid sick time, holidays, and PTO. We also offer a 401K with employer contributions.
Why Join Us?
Lee Enterprises offers competitive wages in a dynamic, interesting work environment with career growth opportunities. We offer an extensive benefit program that can be personalized to your needs. Our benefit program includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, company provided life insurance and supplemental life insurance. In addition, we offer a 401K retirement plan with company match. We also offer generous paid time off to allow the flexibility to balance personal life and work. This includes paid parental leave for new parents.
Lee Enterprises is a major subscription and advertising platform and a leading provider of local news and information, with daily newspapers, rapidly growing digital products and nearly 350 weekly and specialty publications serving 75 markets in 26 states. Year to date, Lee's newspapers have an average daily circulation of 1.0 million, and our legacy websites, including acquisitions, reach more than 34 million digital unique visitors.
Lee Enterprises is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to attracting and retaining a workforce whose diversity reflects the communities we serve. Lee embraces change, and we recognize that we must create and maintain a culture of fervent inclusion. For more information about Lee, check us out at www.lee.net.
We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If
you are excited about this role but do not meet 100% of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply.
Other details
- Job Family News
- Pay Type Hourly
- Davenport, IA, USA