Jobs at Advance Local

Reports on local and state politics, government conflicts, school board disputes, and community power struggles across New Jersey. Produces breaking news, enterprise, trend, investigative, and potentially longform stories. Builds sources, engages audiences, and publishes across written, social video, podcast, and other multimedia platforms while meeting deadlines and collaborating with editors and reporters.

Newsroom interns contribute to breaking news coverage and enterprising projects across news, features, sports, and visuals. They work under experienced editors, receive mentorship and newsroom training, and produce accurate, engaging journalism. Internships last 10 weeks and are available in winter, summer, and fall. Interns must arrange housing and have reliable transportation to meet sources and cover events.

Report multiple data-driven stories weekly using public records, live data, and AI-assisted workflows. Responsibilities include scraping, cleaning, analyzing, and verifying datasets; building visualizations, interactive maps, lookup tools, and dashboards; interviewing sources; publishing across digital channels; and collaborating with newsroom teams. The role requires careful human review of AI-assisted work, strong journalistic ethics, deadline management, and the ability to translate complex data into engaging stories for New Jersey readers.

Creates, edits, and publishes short-form news and feature videos for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. Responsibilities include researching and pitching stories, scripting, shooting, editing, covering New Jersey events, producing same-day news content, planning Facebook livestreams, and growing engagement among viewers aged 18–30. The role requires strong news judgment, social media fluency, video editing skills, organization, and reliable transportation.

Reports on high school sports and student-athletes across Oregon, covering games, breaking news, features, rankings, polls, previews, awards, and investigative trends. Builds relationships with coaches and athletic directors, monitors social media and regulatory developments, pitches stories, and writes independently under tight deadlines. The role emphasizes digital audience growth through newsletters, social media, video, AI, and reader metrics. It is hybrid in the Portland area and requires reliable transportation, nights, and weekends.

Generate net-new sales pipeline through outbound prospecting, inbound lead qualification, account targeting, and meeting generation for Account Executives. Conduct daily calls, emails, LinkedIn and social outreach; maintain accurate CRM data; meet activity and pipeline goals; and provide feedback to improve sales processes and the SDR playbook.

Drive profitable revenue growth by selling digital advertising solutions to regional clients. Manage the full sales lifecycle, conduct needs-based selling, develop data-supported presentations, identify new opportunities, maintain a Salesforce pipeline, meet sales targets, and collaborate with internal teams. The role is remote-based in Staten Island and requires reliable transportation for regular client meetings, conferences, and team meetings.

The Data Governance Specialist develops and enforces data governance, quality, privacy, risk, and compliance standards across organizational data assets. Responsibilities include managing metadata, data dictionaries, lineage, classification, retention, PII controls, DPIAs, risk assessments, audits, dashboards, and data-quality remediation. The role partners with engineering, security, legal, and business teams, provides stakeholder training, investigates data integrity issues, supports incident escalation, and automates governance processes through scripting.

Develop and execute technical and content SEO strategies for client websites. Conduct audits, resolve crawlability and indexing issues, optimize site architecture and on-page elements, support migrations, monitor performance using analytics tools, and provide actionable recommendations. Collaborate with developers, writers, SEO specialists, and clients while managing multiple projects and adapting to emerging AEO, GEO, and AI-search trends.

Owns end-to-end delivery quality for digital advertising, SEO, and website services serving equipment dealers. The role establishes standards and SOPs, manages execution teams, ensures accurate reporting, escalates client issues, identifies delivery risks, and improves operational efficiency. It partners with product leaders to implement AI-assisted workflows, develops scalable processes, presents performance insights to clients, and supports retention through consistent, measurable work.

Reports on local news, public safety, and community issues in Kalamazoo County. Identifies stories through social monitoring, search trends, public records, meetings, and community conversations; verifies information, files FOIAs, develops sources, and produces timely updates, explainers, enterprise stories, video scripts, and social videos. The role requires audience awareness, accountability journalism, on-camera comfort, reliable transportation, and the ability to work independently at a fast pace.

The multimedia journalist will produce and create news stories through photography, video, and audio, while collaborating with a team and engaging with the community.

Manage creation and optimization of digital advertising campaigns across Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. Perform budgeting, bid management, ad copy and targeting updates, analyze data to improve performance, collaborate with internal teams and clients, train junior staff, update creatives, and maintain internal tools and reporting.

Own the technical side of the sales process by creating customized demo environments, evaluating demo tooling, supporting complex API and webhook integration discussions, and translating technical capabilities into business value. Capture structured prospect feedback for Product and enable sales enablement. This individual contributor role may grow into leading a Solutions Engineering function.

Oversee social media strategy and execution, manage NYup.com content, lead newsletter strategy, assign and edit articles, supervise journalists and producers, coordinate freelancers, grow audience engagement, and support newsroom AI initiatives. The role requires strong journalism, social media analytics, storytelling, team leadership, and content optimization skills, along with flexibility for evenings and weekends and regular work in the Syracuse newsroom.

Full-cycle sales role selling digital recruitment advertising: prospecting, client acquisition, consultative campaign strategy, and performance optimization. Manage pipeline in Salesforce, coordinate post-sale campaign execution with internal teams, deliver data-driven presentations, and regularly meet clients while working remotely with required local travel.

Join Catalyst IQ as a Sr. Specialist in Digital Advertising to enhance digital offerings, analyze performance data, support client communications, and drive results for automotive accounts.

Cover Pittsburgh-area high school (WPIAL) sports in real time, produce written stories and vertical video, build audience-driven features, and handle night, weekend and travel assignments. Shoot, edit and publish multimedia content for social and mobile platforms while sourcing and breaking news under deadline pressure.

Create and publish platform-native Pittsburgh Steelers content (cards, vertical video, short-form explainers) for Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Collaborate with reporters and editors, move quickly on breaking news and game-day moments, optimize posts per platform, track performance, and use design/video skills to grow and engage audiences. Part-time temporary role requiring reliable local transportation.

Report across Lorain County, developing sources, digging into records and attending local government, courts, schools and zoning meetings. Gather breaking-news information and file multiple posts daily while an AI-enabled rewrite desk crafts final articles. Engage community, pursue accountability coverage, and travel locally to meet sources.