Texas A&M Reporter
About The Position
The Houston Chronicle is seeking a digitally adept reporter to cover Texas A&M athletics and its passionate fan base. This role requires a journalist who understands that Aggie athletics encompasses more than just game results and press conferences. It involves a year-round online dialogue influenced by recruiting developments, fan sentiment, coaching rumors, traditions, memes, social media trends, and the evolving business landscape of college sports. The ideal candidate will be adept at moving quickly, anticipating stories, and engaging with audiences across various platforms, including social media, YouTube, and video. A strong grasp of internet culture, the ability to thrive in a competitive news environment, and the skill to transform complex college sports issues into accessible and shareable journalism are essential. This reporter will cover Texas A&M athletics with a sense of urgency, creativity, and authority, contributing significantly to one of the Chronicle's most prominent and audience-driven coverage areas.
Requirements
- Three to five years of relevant sports reporting experience, ideally covering college athletics or another highly competitive, audience-driven beat
- Understands the culture of college sports fandom and how online communities shape conversations around teams and athletes
- Comfortable reporting quickly and accurately in a fast-moving digital news environment
- Strong instincts for social storytelling, audience engagement and identifying stories that fans care deeply about
- Comfortable on camera and capable of creating compelling video explainers, reactions and analysis
- Thinks creatively about storytelling formats and embraces experimentation across platforms
- Collaborative, audience-focused and committed to producing accurate, high-quality journalism under deadline pressure
Responsibilities
- Deliver timely, audience-focused coverage of Texas A&M athletics that goes beyond game recaps and press conferences
- Break news on recruiting, coaching changes, NIL developments, conference shifts and the evolving business of college sports
- Identify and cover trending conversations, fan reactions and online moments shaping the Texas A&M community
- Live-blog football and key volleyball, baseball and softball games
- Produce smart analysis and explainers that help readers understand major stories and developments in college athletics
- Collaborate with video and audience teams to create video content for social platforms, YouTube and Chronicle platforms, including quick reactions, explainers and analysis
- Use analytics, search trends and audience insights to guide coverage decisions and identify opportunities for growth
- Write and produce a Texas A&M newsletter
- Collaborate with photographers, videographers, editors and audience strategists to create engaging, multiplatform storytelling
- Build sourcing across the athletic department, the college sports landscape and the Texas A&M community
- Travel as assigned for major games, SEC events and key coverage opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
