Sports Reporter

Sports is part of a community’s fabric. It provides a chance to tell compelling stories, celebrate victories and understand defeats. Ultimately, sports coverage is vital to a newspaper’s ability to connect with a community. In the end, that’s what this job is all about – connecting with communities throughout the Yakima Valley.

Essential Job Functions

Advances, covers events – primarily at the prep level.
Shoots photos and video as part of event coverage.
Develops features on sports, outdoor subjects of demonstrated interest to local audiences.
Uses social media to build reader engagement with YHR sports coverage.
Utilizes analytics to refine coverage.

The Yakima Herald-Republic is a daily newspaper in Central Washington, an area dominated by vineyards, hop fields, wineries, brewpubs and eateries. If you enjoy the outdoors, you’ll love it here – we’re close to the Cascade Mountains, rivers, lakes, trails and forests. Appreciate the big city? Seattle and Portland are just a few hours away.

Yakima is a city of about 96,000 people. Altogether, about 250,000 people live in Yakima County, and slightly more than half of them are Hispanic.The people who live here need to see themselves reflected in our sports and outdoors coverage every day. Fluency in Spanish will help you effectively report on the entire community.

We’re part of the Seattle Times Co., a family-owned company committed to journalistic excellence. The Blethen family believes that decisions about the Yakima Herald-Republic are best made by the people who live and work here.

The company values diversity in the workplace as well as in our news coverage. The Yakima Herald-Republic is an equal opportunity employer.

To apply, send a cover letter, resume and links to Executive Editor Greg Halling at ghalling@yakimaherald.com.