Summary:
Ambitious, proven, news-breaking journalist to report on our local National Hockey League team, the Minnesota Wild. To be clear, this is not a generic "pro hockey" beat, nor an "NHL" beat. Rather, this is a job writing about our local team, the Minnesota Wild, in the capital of the State of Hockey, downtown in the city of Olympic champion Herb Brooks. Hockey right here, hell yeah. We don't want stenography, box scores or do-whatever-the-pack-does reporting. Borrring. Your audience is not a few insiders, nor the dwindling Twitter/X crowd, nor the rest of the press corps. Your audience is that great group of all-age hockey lovers here, those who know their X's and O's and those who might not know an X from an O but for sure are tuned to the thrill of slapping sticks and skates ripping across the ice. This is a big, passionate, news-hungry crowd whose hockey context is broad, deep, long ... and local.
We need you to connect with that context and that audience to break news, explore questions and ideas of distinct interest here, deliver reporting our readers can't get anywhere else, concentrate on substance and experiment with form in ways that serve the readers we have, attract more, and convert them into paying subscribers.
What you will do:
- Build relationships with a variety of people in the St. Paul area to inform and deepen your understanding of the place and its relationship with hockey
- Build relationships with the team, its ownership/management, agents and a wide variety of other sources based on your demonstration of intense interest, fair-mindedness and drive to deliver news, answers and context to our audience
- Break news day to day and with longer-term enterprise; this requires juggling and imagination
- Understand and execute on our news strategy, using the various tools that support it, including digital metrics, to drive traffic, audience engagement and subscriptions
- Experiment with form and format
- Communicate and collaborate effectively with colleagues and supervisors, in season and out
- Throw in whenever big news breaks, whatever the subject
What you will bring:
- Reporting experience in a fast-paced news organization
- Proven ability to juggle enterprise reporting with daily deadlines
- Extensive training in the ethics and principles of journalism
- Knowledge of social media tools and ethics
- Proven ability to cut through thickets of bias -- including your own -- to get to substance and deliver fair-minded journalism grounded in curiosity and regard for readers
- Commitment to accuracy, attention to detail, and deadlines
- Valid driver's license and reliable transportation required
Who we are:
The St Paul Pioneer Press, a subsidiary of MediaNews Group, offers news reporting and third party advertising and marketing opportunities through its multi-platform products which include: web, mobile, tablet, and print. We are one of the largest media groups in the U.S., serving high-value audiences and connecting advertisers to them. MNG publishes award-winning content (49 Pulitzers) that amasses and engages a nationwide audience via 800 multi-media platforms including web, mobile, social, and print. We are transforming the news industry.
Join our experienced, collaborative local news team at Minnesota's oldest daily newspaper in the state capital of St. Paul on the Mississippi. The Twin Cities metro area is intriguing, literate, beautiful and distinguished by its hunger for news, its diverse population and economy, its multitude of higher-education, arts and sports institutions, and by its abundance of outdoors opportunities, civic involvement and hard work.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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