Local News LLC -
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TYPE OF WORK
Part Time
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SALARY
$200 to $800, related to experience and engagement
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HOURS PER WEEK
20
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DATE UPDATED
Jul 21, 2025
Assist with the day-to-day editorial production of the McKinley Park News, an online news publication that serves the McKinley Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, U.S., with news, events, memberships and resources from our website at
We need help producing some of our regular, data-driven editorial features, as well as, prospectively, assistance with media production, website administration and other duties.
Necessary skills include:
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Fluency in Internet usage:
• Demonstrated experience in written communications via education, training, work experience, etc.
• Data assessment and filtering from public online sources and ability to support content/data entry into our content management system (CMS), editing the data for human readability following our established patterns and style.
Desired skills include:
• Basic image production, such as taking an image from a press release, optimizing it for web publication according to our standards, uploading it into our CMS, and publishing it within and/or associating it with a content item.
• Content management system familiarity, such as understanding and experience producing content within a database-driven website’s back end administrative interface for presentation to users on the front end.
• An understanding of and appreciation for news and journalism.
Bonus skills include:
• Familiarity with the Joomla content management system, including its administration.
• Previous experience working in a newsroom or news/journalism enterprise.
• Literacy in HTML and CSS, and understanding of front-end design.
• News reporting.
• Basic audio/video media production.
• Chinese language literacy (writing/editing and spoken Mandarin and/or Cantonese).
• Spanish language literacy.
We are willing to consider a variety of levels of experience for this role, with engagement, rates and workload tied to capability and capacity.
It is our desire to work with a reliable, ongoing resource who can help us with our immediate needs and also prospectively grow involvement and remuneration as we grow our enterprise and our needs expand.
The position would start out as part-time and ongoing, with flexible engagement according to who we connect with and how we work together. For example, a less-experienced resource might start out with handling basic work; a more-experienced resource might jump in to handle more tasks, at a commensurate rate.
Scheduling is flexible, with regular/daily content updates that do not need to follow rigid deadlines. We initially anticipate needing help between 30 and 100 hours per month, with engagement tied to who we fit with and their capabilities. We’d like to start working with someone soon: in August 2025.
If you’d like to learn more about who we are and what we do, see
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