Sports Reporter - University of Michigan

The Detroit Free Press/ freep.com , part of the USA TODAY NETWORK,is seeking a champion journalist to cover primarily University of Michigan football and men’s basketball. Detroit boasts a robust college audience that reaches more than 50 million readers annually, and a huge portion of that comes from our coverage of the Wolverines’ hallmark sports. The ideal candidate will be the leading writer, reporter and voice for U-M sports for Gannett, with special emphasis on revelatory enterprise and giving our audience news, information and analysis on the maize and blue. In all, the best person for the job will use their sharp journalistic edge to draw readers to freep.com and engage a national audience. The writer will be effective reach audience on multiple channels, be it social media (especially Twitter, Facebook and Reddit), possible podcasts (hosted by themselves or other opportunities) other cutting-edge platforms. There will also be additional responsibilities in helping lead our coverage for other Wolverine teams, when necessary. We are looking for someone with a nose for news and the know-how to present that news to readers across out platforms, in print, on screens and in ears. We need someone raring to make our coverage better with impactful and provocative enterprise and who wants to be part of a winning team. There is no ambition too big for this role.