Education Lab Reporter

The Post and Courier, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper with newsrooms throughout South Carolina, is seeking an experienced education reporter to join our team. The position will be based in Charleston, our flagship newsroom, and will focus on coverage of area school districts, as well as broad education policies and issues.

You will work with two other reporters and an editor assigned to our Education Lab, a grant- and donor-funded initiative that is part of The Post and Courier's nonprofit Public Service and Investigative Fund. The fund supports our investigative team, as well as the work of journalists assigned to a Rising Waters Lab and an Arts and Culture Lab, plus the Education Lab.

The Education Lab was founded on the principle that all children in South Carolina deserve equal access to a high-quality public education. The team's mission is to apply a watchdog and explanatory approach to its coverage, spotlighting both problems and solutions and holding leaders...