Sports Multiplatform Editor
About The Position
The Seattle Times is seeking a versatile Sports Multiplatform Editor with a strong understanding of AP style, SEO principles, and digital journalism best practices. The ideal candidate will possess excellent news judgment, particularly regarding Seattle-area sports teams. This role involves copy editing and formatting stories for The Seattle Times' news products, with a focus on audience engagement. Responsibilities include promoting sports stories through digital best practices, experimenting with innovative ideas, and ensuring content moves rapidly from draft to final product for both web and print with accuracy, clarity, fairness, grammar, and style. The position requires comfort working under tight deadlines and supporting multiple editors. Previous experience with AP style and knowledge of local geography and nomenclature is ideal.
Requirements
- At least 1 year experience working on a sports digital or copy desk at a major metro news organization.
- College degree, or equivalent combination of education and/or professional experience
- Strong copy editing skills
- Strong interest in and/or familiarity with pro and college sports.
- Solid news judgment
- Expertise in digital production
- Ability to thrive in high-pressure situations when big news hits
- Strong communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Familiarity with tools for web publishing and analytics, such as WordPress, Chartbeat, Google Analytics or Marfeel.
- Ability to work collaboratively under deadline pressure
- Ability to respond constructively to direction, suggestions and feedback
- Predictable and reliable attendance is required for this position.
Nice To Haves
- Stellar understanding of AP style
- Stellar understanding of SEO principles
- Stellar understanding of digital journalism best practices
- Excellent news judgment, particularly as relates to coverage of Seattle-area sports teams.
- Previous experience (and mastery) with both AP style
- Knowledge of local geography and nomenclature.
Responsibilities
- Curating and producing the Seattletimes.com sports homepage.
- Copy-editing sports stories for web and print publication.
- Producing digital news alerts and email newsletters.
- Writing web headlines with SEO and audience engagement in mind, and when necessary, print headlines that expand on them.
- Posting Seattle Times stories to social media and engaging with readers.
- Monitoring trends and readership analytics in real-time and providing the sports department with relevant information on SEO, trending topics and follow-up stories based on trending/breaking news.
- Supporting accurate and timely updates and info during breaking news. This could include a range of responsibilities, including running or contributing to live updates or providing SEO advice to editors.
- Maintaining a consistently high-quality product with sharp grammar and unfailing accuracy.
- Multitasking with the demands of production work — editing on deadline as well as communicating continually on Slack and email.
- Upholding our ethics code and standards of fairness, independence and inclusion.
- Staying up to date on digital best practices to optimize our content.
- Practicing a commitment to coverage that is inclusive. This means considering in our stories, headlines, photos and other display type the full range of human diversity with respect to race, sexual orientation, ability, language, culture, gender, age and identity.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and long-term disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Optional life and AD&D insurance and long-term care insurance
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- 10 days of annual vacation accrual, increasing with tenure up to 20 days
- 10 days of annual sick accrual; unused sick pay accrues to an extended illness bank
- 9 paid holidays
- Monthly internet stipend for predominately remote employees
- Subsidized transit cards and parking costs
- Complimentary Seattle Times subscription
- Wellness program
- Fertility coverage (with lifetime limits) for eligible employees
- Parental leave options
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
