Job Description:
• Cultivate and maintain strong sources to break, confirm and advance national news.
• React quickly and eagerly in the moment to advance and elevate trending stories in the sport by providing additional reporting as well as commentary and analysis.
• Generate creative, high-level stories about the growing and complex business of women’s basketball.
• Contribute on multiple platforms, including podcasts, video and social media.
• Write with clarity and consistently deliver clean, skilled stories, both on deadline and on features and enterprise.
• Understand the sports’ advanced metrics and how to apply them to our coverage.
• Collaborate effectively with colleagues as part of a beat team, as well as others throughout our large newsroom in numerous departments.
• Maintain productivity while balancing long- and short-term stories with an aim of having a lively mix of reporting expected of a top journalist covering the sport.
• Ability and willingness to shoot video on location as part of event coverage and important stories.
• Appear on The Athletic’s shows and series network to offer analysis and insight around biggest stories on your beat.
Requirements:
• Minimum 4+ years of relevant experience.
• Established relationships with team and league staff and players across Women’s Basketball.
• Deep and comprehensive knowledge of the league's players and playing styles.
• Demonstrated ability to react quickly and authoritatively to league news and developments.
Benefits:
• Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans.
• Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses.
• 401k retirement savings plan and employer match.
• Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
• Our global benefits packages offer similar benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.
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