Sports Business Reporter

Hearst • Dallas, TX

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About The Position

The Dallas Morning News seeks an enterprising reporter to cover the business of sports in North Texas, examining the intersection of money, power and athletics. The role covers both sports industry leaders and fans affected by executives’ financial decisions. The reporter will produce explanatory and enterprise journalism as well as quick-turn content, while contributing across multiple formats and platforms.

The role involves working with AI tools, including ChatGPT Enterprise and Hearst DevHub tools, to support routine newsroom tasks and reporting. AI-assisted work must be human-verified. The newsroom’s AI group also develops reader-facing experiments and projects with accuracy as a core metric.

Requirements

• Three years of reporting experience.
• Strong sourcing, writing and reporting skills.
• Aptitude for working with financial documents, public records and legal filings.
• A track record of strong enterprise work and breaking news.
• Ability to produce daily stories while simultaneously developing larger enterprise work.
• Ability to use social media and website analytics to inform reporting and presentation.
• Comfort and experience appearing on camera in multiple formats.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet assigned deadlines.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to business, investigative or sports journalism.
• Experience with on-the-go video editing.
• Familiarity with the Dallas-Fort Worth sports landscape.
• Fluency in Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Break news and write deeply reported enterprise stories.
• Write quick-hit and alternative-format stories that serve North Texas readers and inform their sports and leisure spending decisions.
• Build and maintain a broad network of sources across sports, business, law, media and higher education.
• Collaborate with colleagues on the business, sports and visuals teams.
• Contribute to live events, panel discussions, native videos and other storytelling platforms.
• Explain complex financial and legal developments clearly for a broad audience.
• Contribute to traditional sports coverage for marquee events, games and matches during periods of high readership.
• Appear on camera for short, quick-hit videos.
• Use AI tools to support tasks such as generating headlines and SEO keywords, editing for grammar and clarity, adapting stories to other formats and platforms, monitoring public meetings, and processing or summarizing data with human verification.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed