The Sports Business Journal is looking for an innovative and driven home page editor / digital producer who will enhance the quality and presentation of content across digital platforms from SBJ reporters / editors / researchers. Copy editing and headline writing will be a significant part of this role.
The mission is to improve entry points into SBJ’s comprehensive coverage of sports business to help augment the user experience and encourage our highly engaged subscriber base to make multiple visits per day.
With material coming from print, aggregation, newsletters, breaking news and multimedia, the producer will need to juggle multiple elements and have strong news judgement to align presentation to help increase digital metrics.
We have switched to a new CMS in February and the producer will be among the team charged with helping unlock the new system’s potential uses.
Job Responsibilities
- Help manage the day-to-day presentation / alignment of home page content, including articles, photos, charts, podcasts, video, etc.
- Help copy edit news stories.
- Execute the digital presentation of projects and tentpole properties such as Forty Under 40, Game Changers and New Voices Under 30.
- Work to add related links, archival content and other assets to improve user experience and increase time on site.
- Ideate and advise reporters / editors on concepts and designs for digital content.
- Understand performance metrics and react accordingly.
- Work with the social and multimedia teams to help execute, display and promote content.
Required Skills
- A minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar role.
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism / communications, sports management or a relevant field.
- Strong organization, communication skills and attention to detail.
- A news junkie and big reader/consumer of print, digital and tv news with knowledge and interest in sports, the business of sports, pop culture and current events.
- Someone who can learn to spot industry trends and understand news trends, key storylines, critical newsmakers and influencers.
- Knowledge of photo editing, data display and basic graphics executions.
- Strong line editor who knows grammar and can spot holes in stories.
- Ability to work well as part of team and be comfortable in a newsroom setting.
- Ability to work well in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment.
- Ability to be flexible in job responsibilities.
- Ability to accept and apply constructive criticism.
- Highly motivated self-starter who will be on time and ready to work.
- Familiarity with ArcXP is a plus.
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