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About the Role
The Dallas Morning News is seeking an experienced reporter to cover Texas state government and politics from our Capitol Bureau in Austin. The role involves breaking news, accountability reporting, and explaining the impact of government on Texans, utilizing digital-first strategies and collaborating with partner newsrooms.
Responsibilities
- Break exclusive news on the governor, Legislature, statewide officials, agencies and Texas politics.
- Produce a mix of daily news, accountability reporting, enterprise and feature stories that reveal how state government affects Texans.
- Publish with a digital-first mindset, delivering timely reporting and using multiple storytelling formats.
- Cover campaigns and elections with fairness, independence and a focus on their impact.
- Explain complex legislation, budgets, court decisions and regulatory actions with clarity.
- Cover the Legislature and related major events with speed, accuracy and context.
- Hold public officials and institutions accountable through reporting, public records, data analysis and source development.
- Build and maintain a deep network of trusted sources across state government and Texas politics.
- Collaborate with investigative, data, visuals and partner newsroom teams on major projects.
- Uphold the highest standards of accuracy, fairness and verification under deadline.
- Experiment with Advanced AI to enhance journalism and reporting efforts.
- Generate headline options, SEO keywords or alert language using AI.
- Clean up grammar, apply style and improve clarity using AI.
- Version stories for different formats (video, audio) or platforms (social media) using AI.
- Monitor public meetings and get alerts with transcripts and video using AI.
- Utilize AI-assisted data processing and summarization, human-verified before use.
Requirements
- At least five years of professional reporting experience, including significant coverage of state government, politics, a Legislature or Congress.
- Proven ability to balance breaking news with enterprise and accountability reporting.
- Experience producing digital-first journalism and using multiple storytelling platforms to engage audiences.
- Exceptional source-building skills across government, politics and the Capitol community.
- Strong skills using public records, campaign finance, ethics filings and data.
- Deep knowledge of Texas government, politics, the legislative process and public policy is a plus.
Skills
- Reporting
- Government coverage
- Political coverage
- Legislative coverage
- Digital-first journalism
- Storytelling
- Campaign coverage
- Public records analysis
- Data analysis
- Source development
- AI tools
Location
- Austin
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in journalism or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
About the Company
- The Dallas Morning News is seeking an experienced, ambitious reporter to cover Texas state government and politics from our Capitol Bureau in Austin.
- The position will collaborate with the Hearst Texas Bureau in Austin.
- Our state-of-the-art AI tools, including ChatGPT Enterprise as well as the many Hearst DevHub-built tools, act as a smart assistant for routine work.
- Exclusive partnership with OpenAI.
- Through our strategic content partnership with OpenAI and our exclusive ChatGPT Enterprise license, we have unparalleled access to the latest advancements in AI technology.
- A key segment of our editorial innovation team is the AI group, which works on developing ambitious, reader-facing experiments and projects with accuracy as a core metric.