A new position, the City Hall Reporter, will play a central role in producing CivicLex’s flagship news and civic information product, The CivicLex Weekly.
The CivicLex Weekly is the foundation of CivicLex’s civic information program — a news product built to help residents make sense of local government. Its reporting focuses on explaining how local government works and how decisions are made in a simple and straightforward way, without opinion, narrative framing, partisanship, or commentary. The goal is to give residents clear, factual, and practical information they can use to take part in the decisions that shape their community.
Widely celebrated in the nonprofit news industry, CivicLex is the winner of LION Publishers’ Business of the Year and Operational Resilience Awards. The CivicLex Weekly is poised for growth, with plans to expand reporting capacity in the coming years.
This role is designed as a hands-on reporting and civic information position. The City Hall Reporter will primarily cover Lexington’s local government, develop deep fluency in CivicLex’s civic information model, and help shape how the Weekly serves residents. Over time, there is potential for this role to evolve into a leadership position as the newsroom grows.
Throughout the first year, the position will receive one-on-one coaching and mentorship from an acclaimed veteran editor of a major daily newspaper, focused on strengthening reporting, editing, and newsroom skills.