Managing Editor, NBA

🕒 July 23

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $120k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

✏️ Editor

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The Athletic

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2016

📱 Media

⚽ Sports

Media • Sports

The Athletic is a sports media company known for comprehensive sports coverage and in-depth reporting across various sports such as football, tennis, Formula 1, golf, MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, and college sports. It provides high-quality articles, live updates, and expert analysis covering significant events and players in the sports world. The platform features content on various leagues and tournaments, providing insights from well-known journalists and analysts. The Athletic aims to set the standard in sports reporting and offers subscription-based access to its content.

📋 Description

• Manage a staff of reporters and/or editors with an emphasis on the delivery of news and distinct reporting • Drive creative ideas around the daily NBA storylines to advance current news, explore new angles and provoke thoughtful discussions • Collaborate closely with video and audio producers to create a cohesive experience for the audience across all platforms and maximize the reach of our storytelling • Collaborate closely with breaking news and live blog teams on breaking news stories to ensure accuracy in reporting, presentation and tone, and speed in publication • Connect our national and beat reporting to elevate our coverage of what is happening in the NBA • Assist with big-picture, conceptual vision for the vertical, including generating and planning story ideas, and looking for opportunities to expand our coverage • Work to bring a distinctive, compelling, and authentic voice to all digital media products • Maintain an understanding and proficiency of engagement and subscription metrics • Maintain proficiency and knowledge of what makes a story successful with various audiences and platforms • Coordinate staffing assignments, editorial resources and process • Edit and publish stories via WordPress

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in digital sports journalism, with experience at a management level • High-end knowledge of the NBA and drive to compete in a highly competitive landscape • Demonstrated experience recognizing, assigning and editing breaking news • Advanced ability to generate story ideas that result in solid growth in engagement • Works well with writers on strengthening ideas; strong sense of how to advance a single idea into a deeper story • Advanced understanding of the following editing tasks: reporting standards, copy editing, story structure, recognizing problematic sentences, style guidelines • Ability to add context to stories, edit in the writer's voice, ensure fairness • Expert ability to mentor writers and more inexperienced editors.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision benefits • Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s) • company-matching 401(k) plan • paid vacation • paid sick days • paid parental leave • tuition reimbursement • professional development programs