High School Sports Reporter

The Houma Courier/houmatoday.com, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK , is looking for a hard-working and energetic sports reporter to lead high school sports coverage in south Louisiana. Located in Houma, Louisiana -- an hour southwest of New Orleans -- The Houma Courier seeks a dynamic reporter who is digitally savvy and committed to leading the high school sports conversation in Terrebonne Parrish and neighboring Assumption and Lafourche parishes. The ideal candidate will use reporting skills to find and tell compelling human-interest stories and identify interesting trends for enterprise stories that go beyond what happened on the court or field or during an athlete's commitment ceremony. This position requires multimedia skills, the ability to produce and edit video and engage audience on social media. The best candidate will have dynamic writing ability and the knowledge to write about football, basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, soccer and more. We want someone who is ambitious, thinks big, writes with authority and has a passion for storytelling and breaking news before our competitors.