Sports Reporter

Southeast Iowa Union; Maryville (TN); On-site; USD 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K retirement plan

Health insurance

Dental & vision

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Paid holidays

Paid leave

Job summary

The Daily Times is seeking an energetic sports reporter to cover sports across Blount and surrounding counties, including Maryville College and the University of Tennessee sports. The role requires game coverage, features, preps notebook, and enterprise reporting, with skills in photos, video, and social media storytelling.

The position involves working nights and occasionally weekends, with competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, paid holidays, and a

Qualifications

• Experience covering local sports, game coverage, features and enterprise reporting.
• Ability to select high school all-star teams by sport.
• Comfort with taking photos and video and using social media for storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Cover sports in Blount and surrounding counties.
• Cover Maryville College and University of Tennessee sports.
• Take photos and video for stories; post updates on social media.
• Produce game previews, features and enterprise stories.

Skills

Photo/Video

Social media storytelling

News reporting

Job description

Sports Reporter

Full-Time Regular [30 or more hrs/wk] Professionals Tenn & NC - Maryville, Alcoa, TN, US

The Daily Times is seeking an energetic and dedicated reporter to cover sports in Blount and surrounding counties.

The job includes game coverage, features, preps notebook, enterprise reporting, and selecting high school all‑star teams by sport. In addition, the job includes covering Maryville College and University of Tennessee sports. The candidate must be comfortable with taking photos and video, and must be adept at using social media both for storytelling and to find story ideas.

The job requires regularly working nights and occasionally working weekends.

The fringe benefits include medical (split between employer and employee), dental and vision options (employee paid). There are three company‑sponsored benefits, including short‑term disability, long‑term disability and a term life insurance policy. The company pays for six major holidays. In addition, employees accrue hours of paid leave per pay period. The company offers a 401K retirement plan.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.