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About the Role
This full-time staff role focuses on soccer, global sports, tennis, F1, and North American sports. The ideal candidate will have a news-driven outlook, experience in copy-editing and sub-editing across key sports, and comfort editing in both UK and U.S. English. Responsibilities include identifying and commissioning writers, collaborating with news and live teams, and publishing engaging content. This role operates on a hybrid schedule, requiring three days per week in the office.
Responsibilities
- Manage a small team of reporters with an emphasis on the delivery of news, features, and enterprise.
- Assist in generating and planning story ideas across soccer/football, particularly around key sporting events.
- Maintain proficiency and knowledge for SEO best practices.
- Edit and publish stories via WordPress.
- Collaborate with social and programming teams to maximize audience reach.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in digital sports journalism.
- Advanced ability to generate story ideas that result in solid engagement.
- Ability to work effectively with writers to strengthen ideas and develop them into broader packages.
- Advanced understanding of copy editing, story structure, identifying problematic sentences, and style guidelines.
- Ability to add context to stories, edit in the writer's voice, ensure fairness, and provide story structure.
- High-level knowledge of football/soccer and other sports.
- Willingness to work weekends, early mornings, and evenings as required by the sporting calendar.
Skills
- Copy-editing
- Sub-editing
- UK English editing
- U.S. English editing
- Writer identification and commissioning
- WordPress publishing
- SEO best practices
- Digital sports journalism
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Benefits
- Competitive UK benefits packages and perks.
About the Company
- Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love.
- The Athletic’s newsroom of 450+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.
Equal Opportunity
- The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.
- The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.