Real-time sports reporters

With readers starting their day early as they scroll for sports news on their phones and tablets, our sports team is starting earlier, too.

In May, McClatchy assembled an early real-time sports reporting team to give more urgency to trending and interesting stories in the southeast region, specifically focusing on SEC football. And now, we are expanding that team to include ACC football and other national trending stories.

The Miami Herald is looking for three full-time reporters to work as real-time sports reporters, who will be responsible for writing, compiling and/or producing lightning-fast stories and posts about breaking news that is driving the conversation online – or will be driving it a few minutes from now. It could be the latest big development in the recruiting wars, which football coach was fired or which athlete was in Miami partying overnight.

The job requires a demonstrated commitment to fairness and accuracy, in fact and in tone, and a strong grounding in journalism ethics. And like all journalists at the Herald, you must demonstrate the desire and skills to build audience loyalty and engagement.

You are expected to not only to have the ability to build sources and ferret out facts, but frame, write, produce and promote a story via search and social media to ensure that it reaches and resonates with our readers. It will require a demonstrated commitment to change -- to constantly adapting to the ever-evolving ways in which readers seek out and interact with journalism. And it will require enthusiastic participation in ongoing conversations about what’s working and what’s not -- and an equally enthusiastic commitment to adapting accordingly.

Candidates must have at least one year of experience working for a sports website or newspaper.

Interested candidates should email a cover letter, resume, five clips or links and three professional references by Aug. 31 to Sports Editor Alex Mena at amena@miamiherald.com.

 

So, aggregators?

 

Is this full-time or part-time?

 

Sounds like it. Cox tried to do the same thing. Didn't work.

McClatchy already covers the markets in Coral Gables, Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. Will be interesting to see how this is pieced together and presented.

 

Herald is losing a few good actual sports reporters to the Athletic, I guess they are looking at real-time ones to replace them.

 

We are also replacing our Heat beat writer and our GA. Only 2 loses. The positions are full-time. We are expanding.

 

Good to hear.

 

Just what we need. More aggregators, less actual journalism.

 

Will these be positions that cover national news for the Herald and McClatchy or just cover real-time Miami news for the Herald?

 

It is what it is...Not my preferred way of doing business either. But adding jobs is better than cut backs.

The Herald is either going forward with or has batted around the idea of a subscription-model for sports so I wonder how this will tie in with that.

 

Oh, it sounds like a full-time job. The real question is, does it pay like one?

 

It is what is is? What does that mean?

It is a reflection of our lazy, fat, super-size me fast food society that can't sit down for a meal with their family and have a genuine conversation but would rather play on their phone, scrolling through facebook or twitter or instagram and believing there's actual importance to it. They'd rather get 144-character blips of news than read an actual story because reading and learning and being educated is not as important as what Kim Kardashian had for dinner and is wearing at the beach.

It is what it is? It's disgusting is what it is. Our society is made up of a bunch of worthless morons.