Saints Reporter

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This position pays between $52,000 and $70,000 annually.

This is a remote position Based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Advance Local has an exciting opportunity for a Saints Reporter in New Orleans for GulfLive.com / Advance Local.

As a Saints 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.

What you'll be doing:

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

For this position, we are looking for candidates:

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
Able to proactively identify stories that are trending and respond quickly, keeping the quality of content consistent and engaging
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

Our ideal candidates will have the following:

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