Sports editor — NOLA.com/Times-Picayune

This position offers you the opportunity to direct multimedia coverage of major pro, college and prep sports for one of America’s great local news organizations in one of America’s great sports towns. You will be part of a sports leadership team that oversees a staff of reporters, columnists and other digital content producers engaging a passionate fan base in real time on multiple platforms. You will be responsible for rallying the staff around innovative approaches to sports coverage in an increasing mobile and distributed world, including text, audio and video. If you are a highly collaborative newsroom leader excited by the challenge of transforming local sports coverage in the digital age, consider a career in the award-winning newsroom of NOLA.com| The Times-Picayune.



NOLA Media Group is a digitally-focused news organization encompassing all content, marketing and sales operations for NOLA.comand The Times-Picayune. By bringing together the quality journalism and in-depth coverage of The Times-Picayune with the up-to-the-minute information of NOLA.com, we are ensuring the communities we serve have 24/7 access to what's happening locally and around the world.



THE REQUIREMENTS

The ideal candidate for this position will have experience directing a broad range of sports content – breaking news, event coverage, enterprise and features – on a variety of platforms – digital, social, video and print. To be a good fit for this opportunity, you will need to have:

• A bachelor's degree in journalism, communications or a related field, or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least three to five years of content management and/or team leadership experience in a digitally-focused newsroom.
• Mastery of social media and digital interaction, including experience incorporating video and social content into coverage plans.
• Demonstrated proficiency in sports writing and editing and high-level understanding of journalistic ethics.
• The ability to multi-task, creatively problem-solve resource challenges, meet deadlines and manage multiple complex projects.
• Strong communication, organization and decision-making skills.
• An understanding of the methods and tools used to deliver content across a variety of platforms and the ability to create efficiencies in the system to aid in content development and collection.
• The ability to develop sports content that differentiates the organization from competitors, which includes source development that leads to exclusive breaking news, real-time news urgency, game and event coverage, enterprise and features.
• The ability to implement strategies to respond to the evolving nature of the industry by experimenting with new models, platforms and ideas.

THE ROLE

Reporting to the Editor and Vice President of Content, the sports editor will be responsible for the development, coordination and distribution of topical and highly engaging sports content across multiple platforms. You will be charged with leading a team of reporters in the coverage of various sports beats in New Orleans and south Louisiana, focusing predominantly on the New Orleans Saints, New Orleans Pelicans, LSU/Tulane and other area college and high school sports programs, and major events such as the Sugar Bowl and Zurich Classic PGA golf tournament.



Your day-to-day responsibilities will include working with a fellow sports editor and across departments to brainstorm coverage, make assignments, edit copy, maintain story budgets, manage travel and freelance spending. You will be part of a large team of editors and managing producers in news and life and culture who work closely with social, video, photo, digital operations and print colleagues to ensure journalistic resources are deployed efficiently and effectively in a highly competitive media market.



Note: This description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities.



KEYS TO SUCCESS

To excel in this role, you'll need sound news judgment, excellent decision-making skills and leadership abilities. You should be a clear communicator with exceptional organizational and planning capabilities. You will need to have the organizational agility and interpersonal management acumen to manage both day-to-day sports coverage and long-term culture change. You must be a strong line editor, equally adept at overseeing incremental breaking sports coverage and longer enterprise and investigative work. You should be comfortable driving source development that leads to exclusive breaking sports news, enterprise and features. Your adherence to traditional journalistic values must be coupled with an enthusiastic embrace of digital innovation. And you must contribute to a highly collaborative newsroom culture by fostering a spirit of teamwork in all of your journalistic endeavors.

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