MULTI-PLATFORM JOURNALIST
Paducah, KYFull-timeSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
WPSD Local 6, The Paducah Sun, and affiliated newspapers are hiring a Multi-Platform Journalist based at WPSD Local 6. The journalist will primarily report and write for The Paducah Sun, with opportunities to contribute to other newspapers, magazines, websites, television newscasts, and social media. The role focuses on creative, compelling storytelling across the network’s publications and NBC affiliate.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
Experience Required
Journalism
Minimum Education Required
Bachelor's Degree
License(s) Required
Driver's License
Compensation
$
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
1
Job Description
WPSD Local 6, the NBC affiliate in Paducah, KY, The Paducah Sun and our affiliated newspapers are hiring a Multi-Platform Journalist.
You will primarily report and write for The Paducah Sun, but you could also report and write for our other newspapers, magazines, websites, television newscasts and social media. As a storyteller, you know how to balance hard news reporting with the emotional stories of the people that make up our communities. You are a writer who can go beyond the assignment file and enterprise important stories. You look beyond the event in front of you and find the effects this event will have on the communities about which you report.
Your work will be creative, compelling, and relatable content that appears across our network of seven newspapers in Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois, and NBC affiliate WPSD Local 6. You will be based at WPSD Local 6.
This is a full-time position with benefits. Submit your resume, references, demo reel and writing samples to News Director/Executive Editor Jeff Bidwell at [email protected].
Paxton Media Group is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.
Job Type
Full time
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer
Yes
Background Check Required
Yes
Industry
Other
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
67556
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How this job compares
Set against the 510 open Journalist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$81–93K/yr138 salary ranges
- US median$22–23/hr61 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 11 open Journalist jobs in Kentucky and 510 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- Journalist postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (302 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 69 of the 510 open Journalist jobs (14%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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