AL.com is seeking someone who understands how to report on food for a social audience, from fine dining recommendations to discovering hidden gems to examining the best barbecue shack in rural Alabama. We’re looking for a tour guide, someone who will develop trust across Alabama and grow their audience on multiple social platforms as they find the places that make Alabama’s culinary scene memorable.
This role is more than reviewing Birmingham restaurants — it’s about discovering stories, identifying trends, celebrating local communities, and helping audiences experience the very best Alabama has to offer. The ideal candidate is recognized as an authority on food, dining, travel, culture, and Southern living, with the ability to translate that expertise into compelling content across social, video and written stories that inform and inspire.
The base salary range is $48,000 to $60,000 per year.
What You'll Do
What Makes You Exceptional
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Why This Role Matters
Alabama's food scene is experiencing a remarkable evolution—from award-winning chefs and innovative restaurants to enduring local institutions and emerging culinary destinations. We need a storyteller who can help audiences navigate that landscape with authority, authenticity, and enthusiasm.
If you are passionate about great food, compelling stories, and the people shaping Alabama's culture, this is your opportunity to become the definitive expert on one of the South's most exciting lifestyle and culinary scenes.
Advance Local Media offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package with affordable options for your healthcare including medical, dental and vision plans, mental health support options, flexible spending accounts, fertility assistance, a competitive 401(k) plan to help plan for your future, generous paid time off, paid parental and caregiver leave and an employee assistance program to support your work/life balance, optional legal assistance, life insurance options, as well as flexible holidays to honor cultural diversity.
Alabama Media Group is a part of Advance Local Media, one of the largest media groups in the United States, which operates the leading news and information companies in more than 20 cities, reaching 52+ million people monthly with our quality, real-time journalism and community engagement. Our company is built upon the values of Integrity, Customer-first, Inclusiveness, Collaboration and Forward-looking. For more information about Advance Local, please visit www.advancelocal.com
Alabama Media Group is one of the country's most innovative local media companies, operating AL.com, the AL Education Lab and This is Alabama and publishing daily digital editions of the Huntsville Times, The Birmingham News and the Press-Register for Mobile.
In addition, the company runs a digital marketing business which serves advertising clients throughout the Southeast, a film production group Advance Originals, and the national brand It's a Southern Thing.
In the past 7 years, AL.com journalists have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes and been a finalist for another, earned 22 regional Emmys for documentary work, an Edward R. Murrow award for podcasting, a Silver Gavel award for political commentary, IRE award for prison coverage, Scripps Howard and Polk awards for investigating police, multiple national Headliner and SPJ awards and a Webby Award for short-form comedy.
Advance Local Media is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected under federal, state or local law.
If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact Human Resources and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
Advance Local Media does not provide sponsorship for work visas or employment authorization in the United States. Only candidates who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. will be considered for this position.
Advance Local Media is one of the largest media groups in the United States, which operates the leading news and information companies in more than 20 cities, reaching 52+ million people monthly with our quality, real-time journalism and community engagement.
As home to some of the nation’s top local media groups, software and data platforms, and marketing agencies, Advance Local strives to make a positive and lasting impact in the communities we serve. A company grounded with rich history and driven by creative innovation, Advance Local’s mission is to strengthen and empower the communities we serve. Our media groups include Advance Ohio, Alabama Media Group, Advance Media New York, MassLive Media, MLive Media Group, NJ Advance Media, PA Media Group, and Staten Island Media Group.
We believe in our brands, our values, and each other and are united by our shared goals, culture of creative innovation and commitment to our communities we’ve been serving for more than a century.
We're part of Advance, a private, family-owned business that owns, operates and invests in companies spanning media, entertainment, technology, communications, education and other promising growth sectors. Their mission is to build the value of the company over the long-term by fostering growth and innovation across their diversified portfolio. Advance’s portfolio of exceptional companies includes Condé Nast, Advance Local, Stage Entertainment, The IRONMAN Group, American City Business Journals, Leaders Group, Turnitin, and POP. Advance is also among the largest shareholders in Charter Communications, Warner Bros. Discovery and Reddit.
For more details, please visit AdvanceLocal.com.
