Sports Editor - Newburyport (Mass.) Daily News

The Newburyport Daily News is looking for an aggressive, enthusiastic sports editor who comes up with great story ideas while covering teams at six area high schools as well as youth sports and adult athletics.

Candidates must be able to multitask — previewing big games, turning compelling features, filing from the sidelines, writing weekly columns and taking scores by phone. We look to our sports pages not only for high school and youth athletics, but also for coverage of athletic activities such as running, biking, tennis, boating and golf.

This is a full-time job. Our sports editor writes multiple stories each day, prepares a daily sports budget, works with our photographers and news design desk, writes headlines, edits cutlines, assigns stories to a part-time sportswriter, and works closely with the editor of our newspaper as well as other sports editors in our North of Boston Media group.

Our sports editor is a social media whiz -- a fixture of local Twitter feeds and a regular contributor to our Facebook page. The sports editor posts stories and photos to our website, and produces videos, too. Candidates must be able to work comfortably across digital and print platforms.

The job regularly includes night and weekend assignments.

Please email resume and cover letter with salary requirements, along with examples of materials demonstrating your skills and experience to hr@northofboston.com.

We’re located off Route 95 in the Merrimack Valley just 35 minutes north of Boston. Rich in maritime history and nestled on the shores where the Merrimack River meets the Atlantic, the Greater Newburyport area is comprised of diverse shops, restaurants, small businesses and corporations alike.

The Daily News of Newburyport is part of the North of Boston Media Group, a subsidiary of Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., a multi-media company based in North Andover, MA, with 9 newspaper publications which include four daily newspapers (The Eagle-Tribune, The Salem News, Daily News of Newburyport and Gloucester Daily Times), magazines and award winning websites. For more information on NOBMG, visit http://www.nobmg.com.

North of Boston Media Group offers a comprehensive benefits package; including health, dental, vision, life, long and short term disability, and 401(k).

An Equal Opportunity Employer

 

If Newburyport is 35 minutes north of Boston, I'm checking in at 165.

Thirty-five minutes north of 128, sure.

 

^Read the ad. It states they're based in North Andover which is 27.6 miles away from Boston.

 

Yes, The Eagle-Tribune (The Mothership) is in North Andover, but to do the job right you need to be in Newburyport - which isn't a bad place to live.