High School Sports Reporter (Iselin, NJ)
NJ Advance Media seeks a versatile reporter for a full-time position covering high school sports in the most prominent High School Sports department in the country.
The candidate will be responsible for beat coverage of a different sport in each of the three seasons during the school year and should be comfortable owning a beat on their own or working on a highly collaborative team with other reporters. The reporter would be responsible for all aspects of coverage, including ranking the best teams and players in the state, breaking news, identifying trends and generating enterprise on their beats.
For this position, the ideal candidate should have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Journalism or Communications or related field requested.
- A minimum of three years of journalism experience with a proven ability in beat-reporting and writing required.
- Ability to work independently and remotely under deadline pressure and prioritize tasks appropriately.
- Solid understanding of news writing, reporting, journalistic ethics and story structure.
- Demonstrated capability to deliver clean copy and react quickly as news breaks.
- Ability to learn and master multiple applications used to deliver content across a variety of platforms.
- Mastery of social media and digital interaction to find stories, build sources and share content.
- Ability to leverage relationships with sources to deliver content that differentiates NJ Advance Media from its competitors.
Advance Local Media offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package with affordable options for your healthcare including medical, dental and vision plans, flexible spending accounts, fertility assistance, a substantial 401k plan to help plan for your future, generous paid time off, paid parental and caregiver leave and an employee assistance program to support your work/life balance, optional legal assistance, life insurance options, as well as flexible holidays to honor cultural diversity.
NJ Advance Media is a company positioned for the future. We embrace the rapidly evolving digital landscape and are committed to developing new solutions across current and emerging media to help advertisers grow their businesses. In addition to flexible advertising opportunities with powerful media vehicles that we represent, we offer custom digital solutions from web and mobile site development, to a sophisticated array of search and social media optimization and targeted display solutions to reach audiences on all platforms.
Our focus is on developing a real-time approach to reporting news, sports and entertainment content for consumption across all platforms and devices throughout New Jersey and Easton, PA. On nj.com and lehighvalleylive.com, we ensure the communities we serve have 24/7 access to the news and information that's most relevant locally, regionally and beyond. Our quality journalism and in-depth coverage is provided locally in The Star-Ledger, The Hunterdon County Democrat, The Suburban News, The Times of Trenton, South Jersey Times and The Express-Times.
NJ Advance Media is a part of Advance Local Media, one of the largest media groups in the United States, which operates the leading news and information companies in more than 20 cities, reaching 58+ million people monthly with our quality, real-time journalism and community engagement. Our company is built upon the values of Integrity, Customer-first, Inclusiveness, Collaboration and Forward-looking. For more information about Advance Local, please visit www.advancelocal.com.
Advance Local Media is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status or any other category protected under federal, state or local law.