High School Sports Reporter

About the role

Strengthening and empowering all of the communities we serve. Cleveland.com's award-winning sports team is seeking an ambitious, social media-savvy reporter to cover high school sports.

Responsibilities

• Gather information and produce journalistically sound news elements for use in all media platforms, existing and future, that are balanced and factual, timely and topical, well-sourced and contextually correct.
• Take photographs and short video, and post it to the web as well as upload to any internal production systems.
• Use laptops and smartphones for remote web reporting.
• Use the Arc content management systems, and any future CMS.
• Frequent, incremental posting throughout the day.
• Curate and contextualize relevant news and developments within the high school sports landscape.
• Maintain and engage with a community on social media platforms, with story shares, objective commentary, and promoting the news organization's content initiatives.
• Monitor and engage in reader comments on stories.
• Elevate comments into new posts when appropriate.

Requirements

• A degree in journalism, communications or a related field, or equivalent education and experience.
• At least three years of professional journalism experience with a demonstrated ability to produce clear, compelling and accurate reporting.
• Solid understanding of news writing, journalistic ethics and story structure.
• Experience with search engine optimization practices.
• Experience capturing and editing photos, audio and video content.
• Experience using social media to source, distribute and promote content.
• Basic HTML or equivalent web language.
• Demonstrated ability to reach audiences on multiple platforms.
• Proven ability to utilize a broad set of tools to tell stories and engage audiences.
• Reliable transportation to meet with sources and cover events.

Qualifications

• Ability to work under deadline pressure and prioritize tasks appropriately.
• Proven ability to build, maintain and engage a community.
• Experience with social listening, analytics and audience-monitoring tools.
• Experience with reporting and AI-assisted tools to produce exclusive content.
• Build meaningful relationships with coaches, athletes, administrators and fans.
• Content examples could include breaking news, recruiting news, investigations, trend stories, video explainers and social-first reporting.

Skills

• Experience with social media and digital interaction.

Pay

$55,000 - $63,000 per year.

Schedule

Not specified.