Part Time Associate Editor, Audience Engagement, Apps/Alerts
About The Position
Audience Engagement is a diverse collection of essential editors, programmers and specialists that are responsible for the fan experience with editorial content and streams on most of ESPN's digital offerings. Teams program the homepage for ESPN.com and the ESPN App's industry-leading audience, while operating nearly 24/7 including sending hundreds of editorial news alerts daily. A Watch team manages the CTV app experience, elevating the best, most urgent live events in ESPN's portfolio of rights. All are done utilizing real-time metrics and editorial judgment to elevate the most compelling and urgent content. The copy desk touches all outputs while enhancing tone, readability, and accuracy of the editorial operation. While an SEO team maximizes the reach and types of content that fans are searching for off-platform as well. This person will be trained in sending editorial news alerts to the ESPN App and the ESPN Fantasy App. This encompasses news, live events, written stories, highlights and more. Regular decisions about which audience will receive the notification, how to tee up the content, verifying the accuracy, tone and style while maintaining our industry-best expectations for speed to fans’ lock screens. They will also have shifts where they will be responsible for programming the main news lane of the ESPN App, or the various fantasy index pages that appear on both web and app. This position is in Los Angeles, CA, is part time (29 hours/week) and hours may include nights & weekends.
Requirements
- Experience in online media content preparation.
- Ability to work in a rapidly changing online environment and possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Background or ability to quickly become competent in HTML.
- High School Diploma or Equivalent
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in communication arts, journalism or new media or equivalent combination of education experience.
Responsibilities
- Editing and maintenance for all of ESPN Mobile App's plus notifications and News programming.
- Daily assessing of content from a variety of sources (includes wire services, partners, ESPN staffers, freelancers, plus interactive elements, social media, live events, audio, and video) to determine how it fits into our daily news coverage and programming needs.
- Evaluating all copy and headlines, provides feedback on all art and video, and works to package this content in a manner that is dynamic enough to entice users to delve deeper into the app.
- Excellent headline writing and ability to present and tell stories in a tight space.
- Showing good judgment in prioritizing all online content for a national audience.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
