Social Mobile Sports Columnist | Phoenix, Arizona

Job opportunity at Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK - Social Mobile Sports Columnist

The Arizona Republic/azcentral.com is looking for a social/mobile sports columnist to join our award-winning sports team and newsroom.

Greater Phoenix provides the ideal setting for notable sports journalism – a diverse, international metropolitan area that's one of 13 in the nation with all four legacy sports leagues, plus high-impact events ranging from spring training to the world’s best-attended golf tournament to major national championships in pro and college sports. We are Arizona's No. 1 source for sports news and commentary. The Republic has Arizona's largest and most-trusted newsroom and azcentral.com has the most visitors, page views and engagement in the state.

This new position demands a new way of creating sports content (social posts, quick takes, video, news stories, columns) and fresh approaches to how it's shared and how we connect with our audience. It will require the successful candidate to:

• Create smart, thoughtful, engaging, sophisticated content in a variety of formats on Arizona and national sports to help grow audience. The focus will be on the big teams and personalities that drive Arizona sports, but also national topics that help consumers better understand the sports world.
  
  
• Provide leadership on developing audiences on Facebook, Twitter and emerging social platforms.
  
  
• Display creativity in everything from developing column ideas to writing SEO-friendly headlines to sharing content socially to having an eye for images and video.
  
  
• Be among the strongest reporters and storytellers in our newsroom, able to write quickly and with voice, and also bring a sense of fun to the job.
  
  
• Be comfortable appearing on camera or in front of a crowd.