The Post and Courier, South Carolina's statewide leader in award-winning news coverage, is seeking an energetic reporter to join our trending and quick response team. We value journalists in these breaking and trending roles who not only react with urgency when news happens, but whose competitive spirit drives them to actively mine for stories that competitors don't have.

The position is based in Charleston, a gem on the list of America's best places to live. You are a strong candidate if you know how to report a story quickly and creatively when news strikes. Even better is if you bring storytelling talent to the job, when the subject warrants it, and you have the creative know-how to develop smart, quick-turn enterprise angles to follow up on breaking news.

Our philosophy with breaking news is that we don't aim to cover every single thing that moves. Instead we concentrate on jumping on key breaking stories and owning them with urgency and ambition, while also identi...