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Ad Age seeks a reporter to focus on sports and audio marketing

Ad Age is seeking a reporter to cover the marketing landscape with a focus on sports and audio marketing.

You’ll help direct coverage and set the agenda for this broadening area of coverage.

The focus will be on breaking news, identifying trends and working with a team to dig out and write feature stories on key sporting events like World Cup, Olympics and Super Bowl, as well as uncover niche sports and franchise that are growing marketing strategies. The beat also includes coverage around the audio and music landscape, exploring the evolution of podcast advertising, how brands are developing sonic branding and the intricacies of navigating music on social channels.

You’re a team player who possesses the ability to juggle breaking stories with longer features and are eager to embrace new storytelling formats and collaborate across the newsroom.

Qualifications:
● Bachelor’s degree
● At least two years of work in a professional newsroom.
● Excellent news judgment, strong reporting skills and the ability to produce longer-form articles on a regular basis.
● Comfortable with and some background being on stage and on camera.
● The ability to work quickly with minimum supervision.
● An enthusiastic self-starter who is also an ally to others on team.

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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