Sports Trending Reporter

Gannett is seeking reporters to work on a team of journalists covering trending sports stories that start the conversation in the country each day.

We create urgent, smart and innovative sports coverage that reach readers on any platform, illuminating and elevating the most important stories across the nation. Your stories will be published across the Gannett network on USA Today and our more than 200 local newspapers. We identify the top personalities, events and athletes to cover each day, elevating those stories for local, regional and national audiences. And we use metrics and analytics to help us anticipate coverage opportunities that are going to get the country talking.

Our reporters have strong news judgment, file accurate, concise and clean copy on tight deadlines and they enjoy building on breaking news with smart enterprise ideas.

This position will include some night or weekend work and is a remote role.

Responsibilities

Covering sports trending topics of the day across the U.S., not only through personality and live-event coverage, but by developing coverage that anticipates our audiences' interests on any given day
Localizing national coverage by focusing on the passion topics for our primary markets and target audiences.
Bringing a creative approach to coverage for emerging sports markets through innovative storytelling techniques tailored to specific platforms.
Work with editors to evaluate what is working and what is not and develop ongoing plans to better satisfy audience needs.

What You’ll Need To Thrive In This Role

A nose for finding interesting stories that take readers beyond what’s trending to highlight intriguing subjects with sophisticated and succinct storytelling.
Ideas about innovative and creative ways to bring the biggest national stories to readers in fresh and relevant ways, no matter where they find our coverage.
The ability to work collaboratively with a nationwide team of reporters, editors, photographers and producers to tell meaningful stories that target specific audiences.
A clear and concise writing style that avoids cliches and explains jargon.