Reporter, US News and Crime at FOX Entertainment

**Who this is for** An enterprising, mid-level reporter specializing in crime and legal news who excels at investigative, long-form, and breaking news projects.

Work type: hybrid

Location: New York, New York, USA | Washington, District of Columbia, USA | Los Angeles, California, USA

Salary: $74,000 – $90,000/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

**Who this is for** An enterprising, mid-level reporter specializing in crime and legal news who excels at investigative, long-form, and breaking news projects. **Key highlights** This role focuses on original, enterprise reporting for Fox News Digital, requiring a strong rolodex of legal and law enforcement contacts to break exclusive stories. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have 3+ years of professional newsroom experience, specifically covering crime and courts. - Are highly proficient in investigative tools like PACER, Lexis-Nexis, and FOIA requests. - Possess a strong command of SEO and digital analytics to drive story engagement.

Job Description

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox News Media

FOX News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio, FOX News Books, the direct-to-consumer digital streaming services FOX Nation and FOX News International and the newly announced platform FOX Weather. Currently the number one network in all of cable, FNC has also been the most watched television news channel for 20 consecutive years, while FBN currently ranks among the top business channels on cable. Owned by FOX Corporation, FOX News Media reaches 200 million people each month.

## JOB DESCRIPTION

Fox News Digital is seeking an experienced Reporter to join US News/Crime team.  You are a seasoned reporter with extensive national newsroom experience. You have a wide range of sources that will enable you to break news and dig in on original and exclusive reporting.

This is NOT an on-air role."

You will be offered one of the following shifts:

Monday-Friday, 11:00 AM, ET - 7:00 PM, ET; Monday-Friday, 8AM-4PM  ET; Monday-Friday 2pm-10pm 

A SNAPSHOT OF RESPONSIBILITIES

• Emphasis on original, enterprise and investigative reporting

• Must be able to respond to breaking US news and turn stories accurately under pressure

• Ability to consistently produce stories with original video, interviews, photos and graphic elements

• Ideal candidate will have robust rolodex of criminal, legal and police contacts

• Pitch stories daily as well as execute short- and long-term assignments

• 3+ years professional newsroom experience

• Experience covering US news at a national media outlet, digital experience preferred

• Experience covering crime, courts, legal, and investigations 

• Knowledge of AP style writing

• Command of PACER, Lexis-Nexis, FOIA requests

• Command of SEO

• Experience with digital analytics to monitor, build traffic

• Experience with headlines

• CMS, WordPress knowledge

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally

• Possess a competitive spirit

• Possess an “on-call” mentality and be prepared to work outside of shift in emergency or breaking news conditions

• Eager to network out of the office

• Voracious consumer of news

• Ability to leverage AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, NotebookLM)) to accelerate research, fact-gathering, and story framing in a fast-moving news cycle.

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