Investigative Reporter

**Investigative Reporter, Investigative Journalism Foundation**

Location: Ottawa, Ontario

**Salary**: $70,000-$80,000 base annual pay with $3,500-$5,600 bonus

Application Deadline: Friday, February 28 5:00 pm EST

**About the Investigative Journalism Foundation**

The Investigative Journalism Foundation is a nonprofit newsroom focused on public interest journalism. We are a new kind of media outlet, built around databases on who donates to politicians across Canada, who lobbies them, and how the government spends your money.

Launched in 2023, the IJF is rapidly growing and proud to have been selected for Fast Forward’s 2024 Accelerator for tech non-profits. We’re also delighted to have been a finalist for Startup of The Year from the Institute for Nonprofit News and New Business of The Year from LION Publishers. We also won an Anthem Award for our Open By Default database, a Digital Publishing Award in the Data Journalism category and the Product of the Year award from LION Publishers.

As a nonprofit, nonpartisan media outlet, our primary purpose is to serve the public. We do this by publishing in-depth investigative journalism that speaks truth to power. Our databases are also used by other journalists, academics, policymakers and individuals seeking to increase transparency and strengthen Canadian democracy.

We believe in a collaborative model and are proud to partner with leading media outlets to ensure our non-profit journalism reaches as wide an audience as possible. To date, our journalism partners include The CBC, The National Post, The Walrus, CTV, The Canadian Press, Capital Daily, The Tyee, Canada’s National Observer and The Narwhal.

**About this job**

This job is a great way to learn from some of Canada's top data-driven and investigative journalists. We are a workplace that promotes flexible work arrangements and emphasizes work-life balance.

**What you’ll do at the IJF**:

- Write stories focused on federal politics that speak truth to power by combining access-to-information requests, data wrangling and shoe-leather reporting.
- Dive deep into our political donations, lobbying, procurement and Open By Default databases to find both long-form stories and tidbits worthy of inclusion in our newsletter.
- Collaborate with other IJF reporters on everything from story-idea generation to long-term investigations.
- Collaborate with IJF developers on the creation of new public interest databases.
- Work on co-productions with reporters in partner newsrooms at some of the largest media outlets in the country.
- Help train journalists, academics, wonks and activists who are looking to use IJF databases to better understand how Canadian democracy works.

**We’re looking for someone with**:

- Experience writing in-depth or investigative stories that make the world a better place.
- The ability to spend months methodically working on a long-term investigation while simultaneously bringing an accountability lens to quick-turnaround pieces.
- Excitement about working in a data journalism-focused newsroom. We integrate things like web scraping, data visualization, machine learning and natural language processing in our editorial process. You don’t need to know how to do any of these things, but if you do, tell us in your cover letter.
- A genuine interest in working with others. Our newsroom is deeply collaborative and we regularly work with other media outlets. We believe the best journalism happens when we work together.

**How to apply**:
Please fill out this form. It will ask for your CV, a cover letter telling us how your skills are a fit for the IJF’s mission, as well as links to three stories you reported of which you’re particularly proud. With the links, please include a few sentences outlining what role you played in the story and how it best demonstrates you have the skills outlined in the “we’re looking for someone with” section above.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you.

- The IJF team

Pay: $73,500.00-$85,600.00 per year