California Meteorologist

Job description

McClatchy Media is seeking an engaging, creative and reader-focused meteorologist-journalist who will educate and entertain our readers by delivering daily weather-science coverage — with personality — to our audiences in Sacramento, the rest of California’s Central Valley and the Central Coast. This journalist will deploy a mix of digital storytelling, including personality-driven video, to define and interpret how the weather is affecting where Californians live — and the California destinations to which they most travel. A meteorology degree is essential, as is the ability to develop and sustain a public persona. You will serve our audience by providing scientific information in a conversational way that both everyday news consumers and weather geeks can't get anywhere else. You’ll also make the experience fun for our audience, including by shooting and appearing in short-form vertical videos for our apps, websites and social platforms. You’ll be a newsroom ambassador, answering people’s weather questions, including during live and virtual events. And you’ll partner with others in our newsrooms when it comes to weather’s impact on California’s water supply and recreational haven...