Sacramento Service Journalism & Food Reporter

Job description

The Sacramento Bee seeks a creative, hard-working service journalism reporter to join our newsroom, a role that includes quick-turn coverage of our region’s vibrant food and restaurant scene. The Sacramento Service Journalism Team — in tandem with the California Service Journalism Team — provides our McClatchy Media audiences in Sacramento, the rest of the Central Valley and along the Central Coast with the answers they need to help them navigate daily life. These can be explainers on breaking news, Q&As, fact checks, or stories that celebrate and support local engagement, including “price checks” or “On A Budget” features that explore dining and other experiences people can do for under $25. Expertise in a particular subject area is not required, but this job has a focus on restaurant openings and closings, hyperlocal dining options and restaurant guides, and grocery industry trends. This reporter will collaborate with our food and dining reporter, who has his fingers on the pulse of what Sacramentans and Northern Californians want to eat, as well as our farm-to-fork reporter, who is tracking how economic conditions drive what ends up in restaurants and on people’s plates. Our ser...