Sports Reporter

Job Summary

The ideal candidate will understand the value of increasing audience and using social media to not only interact with our readers but also to find the stories impacting them. They'll be able to jump right into a busy local sports scene and transition weekly between a variety of sports, highlighted by our Friday night football coverage. Night and weekend work will be expected and travel throughout our coverage area.

Proven success in digital news or sports is a must. Previous newspaper experience isn't required, but you should be able to demonstrate journalistic standards, writing ability, web-style storytelling and the ability to quickly recognize and react to trending news in the sports world. Video producing and photo editing experience is a plus.