News Editor
$45,000–$63,000 year
RemoteCanada
Job Summary
Monitor breaking news and trending content across the sports landscape to identify pertinent items for coverage. Write informative and engaging breaking news articles, headlines, and captions that accurately summarize unfolding storylines. Provide live coverage of games and key events throughout the sports calendar while producing push alert copy for vital updates. Curate news feeds with a mix of articles, video, and social media content, and pitch featured stories on topics like NBA free agency or rising soccer talents. This role requires extensive knowledge of major sports, including international leagues, and the ability to work weekends and evenings. You will deliver clean, concise copy on deadline within PENN Entertainment's digital-first environment.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive knowledge of major sports, including: teams, players, stats, history, economics, etc.
- Ability to work under pressure and confidently make immediate editorial judgments in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
- Ability to write news, headlines, and feature content on deadline with a high degree of accuracy
- Excellent communication skills; ability to be impactful in a large environment
- Available and prepared to work weekends, evenings
Desired Qualifications
- Knowledge of international soccer leagues, teams and players strongly preferred
- Previous experience as a news editor and/or writer in a post-secondary or professional newsroom setting is preferred
- A degree in journalism is preferred
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