The Effingham Daily News in central Illinois seeks a reporter to cover all aspects of local news. As part of an award-winning news staff, you'll write, photograph and shoot video for breaking news, cover government meetings, dig deep on enterprise projects, and write magazine-style pieces for several niche publications. A journalism degree and some newspaper experience preferred. Mainly, we want a newshound who understands why local journalism remains so important to a community. You'll be working for a company that is investing in news content instead of cutting back – we just launched an expanded "Weekend Edition" of our Saturday paper.

Email a cover letter, resume, and clips to jeff.long@effinghamdailynews.com or send them by snail mail to: Jeff Long, editor, Effingham Daily News, 201 N. Banker St., Effingham, IL 62401. Bonus points if you study the stories we post on effinghamdailynews.comand tell us in your cover letter how you'd make them better. Application deadline: Oct. 15, 2016.

The Effingham Daily News is a CNHI newspaper.  Based in Montgomery, AL, CNHI is a leading U.S. publisher of local news and information, with newspapers, websites and specialty publications in 23 states.