Sports reporter/copy & digital editor - Central CT Communications

Central Connecticut Communications, parent company of The Bristol Press and the New Britain Herald, seeks a sports writer to join its award-winning team. We are looking for a dynamic writer who can cover games, write feature stories, contribute stories and video for our websites and design pages with InDesign for our daily newspaper in central Connecticut. The successful candidate will be an innovator and creative thinker across all of our platforms, expected to be pro-active in every facet of the newspaper business.

We cover high school sports as if it was the pros, a Division I college, Central Connecticut State, an Atlantic League baseball team, the New Britain Bees, the Eastern Regional Little League tournament, the Nutmeg State Games and PGA Tour golf.

If you're a creative thinker with an eye on not only the print product, including writing and design, but multimedia as well, send your resume, cover letter and three writing samples (including web links, facebook posts and tweets) to Managing Editor Brad Carroll at bcarroll@newbritainherald.com for IMMEDIATE consideration to Managing Editor Brad Carroll at bcarroll@centralctcommunications.com. Please, no phone calls. Please note SPORTS REPORTER/EDITOR in the subject line.

We're near Hartford, two hours from NYC and 90 minutes from Boston. We cover vibrant communities that offer higher education, an array of arts and entertainment, and industries that range from traditional manufacturing to high-technology health care.

Central Connecticut Communications is an equal-opportunity employer. We don't discriminate on the basis of age, sex, ethnicity, religious background, physical challenges or sexual orientation. and we encourage applications from qualified minority candidates.

 

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