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Candidates who do not live in Dallas will be required to relocate to the Dallas area.

The base salary range is $65,000 to $75,000 per year.

Advance Local has an exciting opportunity fora Pro Sports Reporter to cover the Dallas Cowboys for LoneStarLive.com.

As a Pro Sports Reporter , your coverage will include smart commentary, engaging profiles and unique stories that speak to a diverse audience of sports fans. We are a digital-only newsroom and on any given day you may find yourself writing a long-form narrative or a series of incremental updates to a breaking sports report, recording podcasts or chatting with fans on a YouTube livestream.

The ideal candidate will be able to engage with readers and build a community around the Dallas Cowboys. We are looking for someone with strong communication skills who understands the intersectionality of sports, culture and entertainment.

What you'll be doing:

• Provide reporting and analysis of pro sports

• Breaking news and feature reporting, as well as monitoring coverage and analysis on other sports news outlets and aggregating relevant reporting onto our site

• Contribute to the departments traffic and enterprise goals

• Report and create journalistically sound stories, videos and social posts that are balanced and factual, timely and topical, and well-sourced

• Use effective techniques of digital journalism: frequent posting, appropriate aggregation, engaging readers on social media, and monitoring traffic to better understand what is connecting with readers

• Self-publish articles, photos and videos, and be able to learn the Arc publishing system or any future CMS

For this position, we are looking for candidates:

• Who are versatile and can write authoritatively

• Driven, dynamic reporters and writers with the ability to deliver a high volume of content every day

• Able to proactively identify stories that are trending and respond quickly, keeping the quality of content consistent and engaging

• With flexibility to cover what is needed, which may be during early shifts, nights or weekends

• Who can succeed in a collaborative environment while also possessing the ability to work independently

Our ideal candidate will have the following:

• Bachelors degree in journalismor communications or equivalent education and related work experience with a proven ability in journalism reporting and writing

• Minimum fouryears of experience with a proven ability in reporting and writing, including a minimumtwo years of pro or college sports beat experience

• Proven experience building, maintaining and engaging an active audience for a top-tier professional or college sports team

• Ability to work independently under deadline pressure and prioritize tasks appropriately

• Experience with search engine optimization practices

• Experience using social media to source and promote content

• Demonstrated capability to react quickly and deliver audience as news breaks on the beat

• Understanding of the methods and tools used to deliver content across a variety of platforms

• Skill at being a guest or hosting podcasts and video features

• Ability to leverage relationships with sources to deliver content that differentiates the organization from competitors

• The ability to self-edit and deliver engaging and concise copy

• This job requires reliable transportation to meet with sources or cover events