Advance Local has exciting opportunities for Pro Sports Reporters in Texas for our brand-new website launching this summer. We have multiple pro sports positions open, specifically a beat writer for the Dallas Cowboys and second NFL-focused position that will cover trending topics around the Cowboys, Texans and the NFL in general.
As a Pro Sports Reporter, your coverage will include smart commentary, engaging profiles and unique stories that speak to a diverse audience of sports fans. We are a digitally focused, multimedia newsroom, and on any given day you may find yourself writing a long-form narrative or a series of incremental updates to a breaking sports report, recording podcast audio, and optimizing your post for a social or search-driven audience.
Responsibilities:
- As a Pro Sports Reporter, your coverage will include smart commentary, engaging profiles and unique stories that speak to a diverse audience of sports fans
- Provide reporting and analysis of pro sports
- Breaking news and feature reporting, as well as monitoring coverage and analysis on other sports news outlets and aggregating relevant reporting onto our site
- Contribute to the department’s traffic and enterprise goals
- Report and create journalistically sound digital posts that are balanced and factual, timely and topical, and well-sourced
- Use effective techniques of digital journalism: frequent posting, appropriate aggregation, engaging readers on social media, and monitoring traffic to better understand what is connecting with readers
- Self-publish articles, photos and videos, and be able to learn the Arc publishing system or any future CMS
Qualifications:
- Who are versatile and have the ability to write authoritatively
- Driven, dynamic reporters and writers with the ability to deliver a high volume of content every day
- With flexibility to cover what is needed, which may be during early shifts, nights or weekends
- Who can succeed in a collaborative environment while also possessing the ability to work independently
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism or communications or equivalent education and related work experience with a proven ability in journalism reporting and writing
- Minimum eight years’ experience with a proven ability in reporting and writing, including minimum 2 years of pro or college sports beat experience
- Proven experience building, maintaining and engaging an active audience for a top-tier professional or college sports team
- Ability to work independently under deadline pressure and prioritize tasks appropriately
- Experience with search engine optimization practices
- Experience using social media to source and promote content
- Demonstrated capability to react quickly and deliver audience as news breaks on the beat
- Understanding of the methods and tools used to deliver content across a variety of platforms
- Understanding the imperatives of multiple platforms – desktop, mobile, etc
- Comfortable with being a guest or hosting podcasts and video features
- Ability to leverage relationships with sources to deliver content that differentiates the organization from competitors
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