Sports Reporter
Frederick News-Post · Frederick, MD · 1 mo ago
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We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections with real content. No job title heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate like application instructions? The instruction says remove application instructions. So we should not include the "To apply..." lines. Also remove duplicated lines, cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. There's none.
We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to extract content.
Let's parse the posting:
"The Frederick News-Post, a six-day-a-week newspaper in Frederick, Maryland, is seeking a sports reporter to cover a rapidly growing community with a rich sports scene. The primary focus of this role is reporting on scholastic and professional sports, accurately and objectively. Qualified candidates will have at least two years of reporting experience. They will be highly motivated and resourceful enough to find story ideas. Theyll work with a collaborative spirit under nightly deadline pressures. Must be internet/social media savvy and able to shoot photos for publication. Ideal candidates will have broad sports knowledge, curiosity, determination, the desire to constantly know more, the wisdom not to assume. You'll also occasionally write feature stories for the news section. A bachelors degree, particularly in journalism, English, or a related program, and InDesign layout skills are preferred. Must have excellent grammar skills and knowledge of AP style. Proficiency in Spanish is a plus. Must have a motor vehicle suitable for getting around the county, a valid drivers license and an acceptable driving history with no suspensions. The normal schedule is Monday to Friday, 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. The ability to work a flexible schedule, including weekends and holidays, is required."
Then "Principal Duties And Responsibilities Cover local high school, collegiate and professional sports, including games, breaking news, profiles and features. Cover local non-school sports. Rewrite press releases, take scores/highlights via phone/email, and copy edit pages. Pick high school all-star teams in consultation with fellow staff members and area coaches after each high school sports season. Compile high school statistics, standings and team rankings for a weekly page. Cover for other reporters and/or accept other assignments as required, including newspaper pagination."
We need sections: About the role (maybe intro paragraph). Responsibilities (list of duties). Requirements (maybe experience, education, etc). Qualifications (maybe preferred). Skills (maybe specific abilities). Benefits (none mentioned). Pay (none). Schedule (we have schedule info). So we will include About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Schedule.
We must not include sections with placeholder text. No Pay/Benefits.
We need to use for section headings. Use
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive info; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like "six-day-a-week newspaper in Frederick, Maryland", "primary focus ... scholastic and professional sports", etc.
We need to avoid repeating job title as heading (the page already shows it). So we don't put "Sports Reporter" heading.
We need to drop minor metadata like Job ID/requisition numbers (there's recblid line at end). Remove that.
We need to remove application instructions (the "To apply..." lines). So we will not include that.
Now we need to decide what goes where.
About the role: Could be the introductory paragraph(s) describing the role, the newspaper, focus, etc.
Responsibilities: The list under "Principal Duties And Responsibilities". We'll make a
with each duty as - .
Requirements: Could be mandatory qualifications: at least two years reporting experience, highly motivated, resourceful, collaborative spirit under nightly deadline pressures, internet/social media savvy, able to shoot photos, motor vehicle suitable, valid drivers license, acceptable driving history, ability to work flexible schedule including weekends/holidays. Also maybe "must have excellent grammar skills and knowledge of AP style" could be skill but could be requirement. We'll decide.
Qualifications: Preferred qualifications: bachelors degree particularly in journalism, English, or related program, InDesign layout skills preferred, broad sports knowledge, curiosity, determination, desire to constantly know more, wisdom not to assume, proficiency in Spanish is a plus.
Skills: Could be specific skills: reporting, writing, editing, shooting photos, social media, InDesign, AP style, grammar, Spanish, etc. But we need to avoid duplication. Perhaps we can put specific technical skills under Skills: InDesign layout, AP style, grammar, social media savvy, photo shooting, Spanish.
But we must preserve all info; we can distribute across sections but ensure no info lost.
Let's map:
Intro paragraph: "The Frederick News-Post, a six-day-a-week newspaper in Frederick, Maryland, is seeking a sports reporter to cover a rapidly growing community with a rich sports scene. The primary focus of this role is reporting on scholastic and professional sports, accurately and objectively."
That's About the role.
Responsibilities list:
- Cover local high school, collegiate and professional sports, including games, breaking news, profiles and features.
- Cover local non-school sports.
- Rewrite press releases, take scores/highlights via phone/email, and copy edit pages.
- Pick high school all-star teams in consultation with fellow staff members and area coaches after each high school sports season.
- Compile high school statistics, standings and team rankings for a weekly page.
- Cover for other reporters and/or accept other assignments as required, including newspaper pagination.
Requirements (mandatory):
- At least two years of reporting experience.
- Highly motivated and resourceful enough to find story ideas.
- Work with a collaborative spirit under nightly deadline pressures.
- Internet/social media savvy.
- Able to shoot photos for publication.
- Must have a motor vehicle suitable for getting around the county.
- Valid driver's license and an acceptable driving history with no suspensions.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule, including weekends and holidays, is required.
Qualifications (preferred):
- Bachelor's degree, particularly in journalism, English, or a related program.
- InDesign layout skills are preferred.
- Broad sports knowledge, curiosity, determination, the desire to constantly know more, the wisdom not to assume.
- Occasionally write feature stories for the news section (maybe responsibility but could be qualification). Actually "You'll also occasionally write feature stories for the news section." That's a duty but could be responsibility. We'll include in responsibilities maybe.
- Proficiency in Spanish is a plus.
Skills (maybe specific abilities):
- Excellent grammar skills and knowledge of AP style.
- Proficiency in Spanish (though also qualification).
- Ability to shoot photos.
- Internet/social media savvy.
- InDesign layout.
- Reporting, writing, editing.
But we need to avoid duplication. Perhaps we can combine some.
Better approach: Use sections as:
About the role (intro paragraph)
Responsibilities (list of duties)
Requirements (mandatory: experience, motivation, collaborative spirit, deadline, internet/social media, photo shooting, vehicle, license, flexible schedule)
Qualifications (preferred: bachelor's degree, InDesign, broad sports knowledge, curiosity, determination, desire to know more, wisdom not to assume, occasional feature writing, Spanish proficiency)
Skills (specific: excellent grammar, AP style, photo shooting, social media, InDesign, Spanish)
But we have duplication: Spanish appears both qualification and skill; we can keep in both but it's okay.
Schedule: we have schedule info: normal schedule Monday-Friday 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.; ability to work flexible schedule including weekends/holidays required. That could be under Schedule section.
We already included flexible schedule in Requirements; but we could move schedule details to Schedule section. Let's put schedule details there: normal schedule M-F 3pm-11pm; ability to work flexible schedule including weekends/holidays required.
Thus Requirements may not need schedule.
Let's restructure:
About the role: intro paragraph.
Responsibilities: list of duties.
Requirements: mandatory: at least two years reporting experience; highly motivated and resourceful; collaborative spirit under nightly deadline pressures; internet/social media savvy; able to shoot photos; motor vehicle suitable; valid driver's license; acceptable driving history no suspensions.
Qualifications: preferred: bachelor's degree in journalism/English/related; InDesign layout skills; broad sports knowledge, curiosity, determination, desire to constantly know more, wisdom not to assume; occasionally write feature stories for news section; proficiency in Spanish is a plus.
Skills: excellent grammar skills and knowledge of AP style; ability to shoot photos; internet/social media savvy; InDesign layout; Spanish proficiency (maybe). But we already have shooting photos and social media in Requirements; but we can still list under Skills as they are skills.
Schedule: normal schedule Monday to Friday, 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.; ability to work a flexible schedule, including weekends and holidays, is required.
We must not repeat info unnecessarily but it's okay if appears in multiple sections as long as we preserve all.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only.
We'll produce:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Similarly for Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Schedule.
Make sure to not include any empty sections.
Let's craft the text precisely.
About the role paragraph: Combine first two sentences: "The Frederick News-Post, a six-day-a-week newspaper in Frederick, Maryland, is seeking a sports reporter to cover a rapidly growing community with a rich sports scene. The primary focus of this role is reporting on scholastic and professional sports, accurately and objectively."
That's it.
Responsibilities list items:
- Cover local high school, collegiate and professional sports, including games, breaking news, profiles and features.
- Cover local non-school sports.
- Rewrite press releases, take scores/highlights via phone/email, and copy edit pages.
- Pick high school all-star teams in consultation with fellow staff members and area coaches after each high school sports season.
- Compile high school statistics, standings and team rankings for a weekly page.
- Cover for other reporters and/or accept other assignments as required, including newspaper pagination.
We need to preserve exact phrasing. Let's copy from text:
"Cover local high school, collegiate and professional sports, including games, breaking news, profiles and features."
"Cover local non-school sports."
"Rewrite press releases, take scores/highlights via phone/email, and copy edit pages."
"Pick high school all-star teams in consultation with fellow staff members and area coaches after each high school sports season."
"Compile high school statistics, standings and team rankings for a weekly page."
"Cover for other reporters and/or accept other assignments as required, including newspaper pagination."
Make sure punctuation matches.
Requirements list:
- At least two years of reporting experience.
- Highly motivated and resourceful enough to find story ideas.
- Work with a collaborative spirit under nightly deadline pressures.
- Must be internet/social media savvy.
- Able to shoot photos for publication.
- Must have a motor vehicle suitable for getting around the county.
- Must have a valid driver's license and an acceptable driving history with no suspensions.
We could combine vehicle and license into one bullet but better separate.
Qualifications list:
- A bachelor's degree, particularly in journalism, English, or a related program.
- InDesign layout skills are preferred.
- Broad sports knowledge, curiosity, determination, the desire to constantly know more, the wisdom not to assume.
- You'll also occasionally write feature stories for the news section.
- Proficiency in Spanish is a plus.
But "You'll also occasionally write feature stories for the news section." is a duty but we can keep as qualification.
Skills list:
- Excellent grammar skills and knowledge of AP style.
- Proficiency in Spanish (though already mentioned).
- Ability to shoot photos for publication.
- Internet/social media savvy.
- InDesign layout skills.
But we may duplicate; but okay.
Schedule list:
- The normal schedule is Monday to Friday, 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.
- The ability to work a flexible schedule, including weekends and holidays
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive info; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like "six-day-a-week newspaper in Frederick, Maryland", "primary focus ... scholastic and professional sports", etc. We need to avoid repeating job title as heading (the page already shows it). So we don't put "Sports Reporter" heading. We need to drop minor metadata like Job ID/requisition numbers (there's recblid line at end). Remove that. We need to remove application instructions (the "To apply..." lines). So we will not include that. Now we need to decide what goes where. About the role: Could be the introductory paragraph(s) describing the role, the newspaper, focus, etc. Responsibilities: The list under "Principal Duties And Responsibilities". We'll make a
- with each duty as
- .
Requirements: Could be mandatory qualifications: at least two years reporting experience, highly motivated, resourceful, collaborative spirit under nightly deadline pressures, internet/social media savvy, able to shoot photos, motor vehicle suitable, valid drivers license, acceptable driving history, ability to work flexible schedule including weekends/holidays. Also maybe "must have excellent grammar skills and knowledge of AP style" could be skill but could be requirement. We'll decide.
Qualifications: Preferred qualifications: bachelors degree particularly in journalism, English, or related program, InDesign layout skills preferred, broad sports knowledge, curiosity, determination, desire to constantly know more, wisdom not to assume, proficiency in Spanish is a plus.
Skills: Could be specific skills: reporting, writing, editing, shooting photos, social media, InDesign, AP style, grammar, Spanish, etc. But we need to avoid duplication. Perhaps we can put specific technical skills under Skills: InDesign layout, AP style, grammar, social media savvy, photo shooting, Spanish.
But we must preserve all info; we can distribute across sections but ensure no info lost.
Let's map:
Intro paragraph: "The Frederick News-Post, a six-day-a-week newspaper in Frederick, Maryland, is seeking a sports reporter to cover a rapidly growing community with a rich sports scene. The primary focus of this role is reporting on scholastic and professional sports, accurately and objectively."
That's About the role.
Responsibilities list:
- Cover local high school, collegiate and professional sports, including games, breaking news, profiles and features.
- Cover local non-school sports.
- Rewrite press releases, take scores/highlights via phone/email, and copy edit pages.
- Pick high school all-star teams in consultation with fellow staff members and area coaches after each high school sports season.
- Compile high school statistics, standings and team rankings for a weekly page.
- Cover for other reporters and/or accept other assignments as required, including newspaper pagination.
Requirements (mandatory):
- At least two years of reporting experience.
- Highly motivated and resourceful enough to find story ideas.
- Work with a collaborative spirit under nightly deadline pressures.
- Internet/social media savvy.
- Able to shoot photos for publication.
- Must have a motor vehicle suitable for getting around the county.
- Valid driver's license and an acceptable driving history with no suspensions.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule, including weekends and holidays, is required.
Qualifications (preferred):
- Bachelor's degree, particularly in journalism, English, or a related program.
- InDesign layout skills are preferred.
- Broad sports knowledge, curiosity, determination, the desire to constantly know more, the wisdom not to assume.
- Occasionally write feature stories for the news section (maybe responsibility but could be qualification). Actually "You'll also occasionally write feature stories for the news section." That's a duty but could be responsibility. We'll include in responsibilities maybe.
- Proficiency in Spanish is a plus.
Skills (maybe specific abilities):
- Excellent grammar skills and knowledge of AP style.
- Proficiency in Spanish (though also qualification).
- Ability to shoot photos.
- Internet/social media savvy.
- InDesign layout.
- Reporting, writing, editing.
But we need to avoid duplication. Perhaps we can combine some.
Better approach: Use sections as:
About the role (intro paragraph)
Responsibilities (list of duties)
Requirements (mandatory: experience, motivation, collaborative spirit, deadline, internet/social media, photo shooting, vehicle, license, flexible schedule)
Qualifications (preferred: bachelor's degree, InDesign, broad sports knowledge, curiosity, determination, desire to know more, wisdom not to assume, occasional feature writing, Spanish proficiency)
Skills (specific: excellent grammar, AP style, photo shooting, social media, InDesign, Spanish)
But we have duplication: Spanish appears both qualification and skill; we can keep in both but it's okay.
Schedule: we have schedule info: normal schedule Monday-Friday 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.; ability to work flexible schedule including weekends/holidays required. That could be under Schedule section.
We already included flexible schedule in Requirements; but we could move schedule details to Schedule section. Let's put schedule details there: normal schedule M-F 3pm-11pm; ability to work flexible schedule including weekends/holidays required.
Thus Requirements may not need schedule.
Let's restructure:
About the role: intro paragraph.
Responsibilities: list of duties.
Requirements: mandatory: at least two years reporting experience; highly motivated and resourceful; collaborative spirit under nightly deadline pressures; internet/social media savvy; able to shoot photos; motor vehicle suitable; valid driver's license; acceptable driving history no suspensions.
Qualifications: preferred: bachelor's degree in journalism/English/related; InDesign layout skills; broad sports knowledge, curiosity, determination, desire to constantly know more, wisdom not to assume; occasionally write feature stories for news section; proficiency in Spanish is a plus.
Skills: excellent grammar skills and knowledge of AP style; ability to shoot photos; internet/social media savvy; InDesign layout; Spanish proficiency (maybe). But we already have shooting photos and social media in Requirements; but we can still list under Skills as they are skills.
Schedule: normal schedule Monday to Friday, 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.; ability to work a flexible schedule, including weekends and holidays, is required.
We must not repeat info unnecessarily but it's okay if appears in multiple sections as long as we preserve all.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only.
We'll produce:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...