SUMMARY
Floodlight is hiring a Louisiana-based investigative reporter to help us fulfill our mission to expose the powers stalling climate action. We are looking for a self-starting journalist who is comfortable explaining esoteric energy regulation in simple prose while cultivating high-level sources and prying loose public records. The position will focus on the power and influence of the energy industry — including the oil and gas, petrochemical and utility sectors — and its impacts on people, including communities of color.
Candidates for this role must live in Louisiana or be eager to relocate.
ABOUT FLOODLIGHT
Floodlight is a nonprofit, independent newsroom. Since launching in 2021, Floodlight has collaborated with local and national news outlets including The Guardian, NPR, ProPublica, the Los Angeles Times, the Texas Tribune, the Louisiana Illuminator and Capital B. Floodlight stories reach millions.
In 2025, hundreds of news outlets republished Floodlight stories. This position will work closely with colleagues and with journalists at external partner organizations.
Floodlight’s model has shown how collaborative investigative journalism can have an impact. Our reporting with NPR and Florida news outlets about how power company consultants swayed elections, spied on journalists and bought media coverage was followed by the departure of two Fortune 500 CEOs. The stories were seen nationwide and reposted by more than 2,000 outlets. The coverage was a finalist for Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. More recently, Floodlight, along with local and national media partners, won top honors from the National Press Club in 2025 for exposing how corporations and special interests were manipulating public opinion by creating “news” outlets to push their hidden anti-renewable, pro-fossil fuel agendas — in two cases even taking over legacy local newspapers to do it.
Floodlight’s reporting is nonpartisan, adhering to the standards of the Institute for Nonprofit News for financial transparency and editorial independence. While the organization is supported by philanthropic grants from foundations and gifts from individuals, Floodlight retains full authority over editorial content, and our news judgments are made independently and not on the basis of donor support. Read more about our standards & supporters.
Our team of seven consists of two reporters, an investigative producer, an editor-in-chief, an audience director, a chief operating officer and an executive director. We all work remotely, with occasional travel for reporting, in-person meetings, industry conferences or events.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The ideal candidate for this position will share Floodlight’s enthusiasm for collaborative accountability journalism and have a clear vision of how to evolve to best serve diverse audiences in a dynamic news field. As a four-and a-half-year-old organization, we are still shaping how we cover the biggest story on the planet. We are eager for this position to be instrumental in that evolution. We expect the role will evolve and grow with Floodlight and therefore will require some flexibility in how it is carried out.
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We know there are great candidates who might not check all these boxes or possess important skills we haven’t thought of. If that’s you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself. We also encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ people and people with disabilities.
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