Job Description

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are at the core of our mission to strengthen and empower the communities we serve.

Cleveland.com has an opening for a job covering the Ohio State Buckeyes. We are looking for a seasoned, aggressive, innovative reporter to join our team for year-round coverage. This position will work to stay ahead of the competition by breaking news, but also be able to spot trends, produce deep analysis and commentary across platforms, and write compelling feature stories. Staying on top of news and local/national opinion on the beat is a must. You will lead discussions with the audience, answer questions and comments, engage with social media - and possibly represent the company on TV or radio.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Proven experience covering a beat and building, maintaining and engaging an active audience.


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


• Solid understanding of news writing, journalistic ethics and story structure.


• Experience with search engine optimization practices.


• Experience providing sharp analysis and entertaining content on podcasts.


• Experience taking photo, recording audio and video with ability to edit.


• Experience with using social media to source and promote content a plus.


• Basic HTML or equivalent web language a plus.


• Demonstrated capability in capitalizing on high-value topics by engaging audiences in frequency and urgency.


• Understanding imperatives of multiple platforms -- print, mobile, Internet, etc.


• Mastery of social media and digital interaction.


• Proven ability to utilize a broad set of tools to tell stories and engage the audience.


• Keeps abreast of industry advances and proactively considers new methods of reaching audiences including engaging, interactive and optimized product offerings.

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Gather information and write journalistically sound news elements for use in all media platforms, existing and future, that is:

• Balanced and factual


• Timely and topical


• Well-sourced and contextually correct


• Frequent, incremental posting throughout the day


• Story aggregation and topical link-posting


• Monitoring and engaging in reader comment streams on Local Market Website impact pages


• Elevating comments into new posts when appropriate


• Interacting on social media platforms, with story shares, objective commentary, and promoting the news organization's content initiatives


• Understanding and employing the means for monitoring audience interest and competitors' posting on your topic, including setting up Google alerts, Twitter and RSS feeds


• Taking photographs and short video, and posting it to the web as well as uploading to any internal production systems


• Using laptops and smartphones for remote web reporting


• Using the Arc content management systems, and any future CMS

1. Work independently and remotely, while maintaining operational communication with editor and, when applicable, production center.

1. Working knowledge and use of the hardware, software and cloud-based equipment and systems for direct-to-web production and engagement, including but not limited to:

• Understand our news organization's audience traffic tracking systems and analytical reports.

1. Other duties as assigned.

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