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Job opening: Vikings beat reporter
Immediate supervisor: Mike Bass, Senior Editor/Sports
Date Posted: July 31, 2013
Target date to fill job: Aug. 16, 2013
Position Summary: Full-time reporter covering the Minnesota Vikings football team. Duties include but are not limited to breaking news, game stories, notebooks, features, enterprise, investigative, podcasts, blogs and social networking.
Major Functions: 1. Cover the Vikings during the season and offseason as the primary beat reporter while keeping an eye on the rest of the NFL and trend stories. 2. First and foremost, be first and accurate and professional with breaking news concerning the team. 3. Post all developments online first, as quickly as possible. 4. Work with TwinCities.com in providing unique content, including blogs, social networking, podcasts and video. 5. Produce regular enterprise stories, making certain to help plan for graphics, photos, charts and other display elements. 6. Be creative, original and imaginative, producing work that is smart and unique in the marketplace. 7. Take initiative, showing ability to anticipate and plan ahead for coverage. 8. Maintain strong, regular communication with other reporters on and off the beat and with editors so that story ideas can be executed quickly and efficiently and there is no overlap. 9. Develop sources in and around the team and the league who can provide inside information on the Vikings. 10. Meet deadlines and assigned story lengths. 11. Contribute interpretation or analysis to facts and news events. 12. Work with only general supervision. 13 Conduct investigative interviews. 14. Have the ability to follow a story and develop it. 15. Use independent judgment and direction.
Education: The job requires experience in breaking stories, an intense knowledge of the NFL and in most cases requires a four-year college degree.
Experience: In most cases, the job requires daily deadline experience covering professional or major college sports.
Schedule: Hours and day vary according to Vikings schedule. This is a full-time Guild position, A-scale pay. Job will receive Guild benefits according to the Guild contract.
To apply contact: Mike Bass at mbass@pioneerpress.com or 651-228-5108
Immediate supervisor: Mike Bass, Senior Editor/Sports
Date Posted: July 31, 2013
Target date to fill job: Aug. 16, 2013
Position Summary: Full-time reporter covering the Minnesota Vikings football team. Duties include but are not limited to breaking news, game stories, notebooks, features, enterprise, investigative, podcasts, blogs and social networking.
Major Functions: 1. Cover the Vikings during the season and offseason as the primary beat reporter while keeping an eye on the rest of the NFL and trend stories. 2. First and foremost, be first and accurate and professional with breaking news concerning the team. 3. Post all developments online first, as quickly as possible. 4. Work with TwinCities.com in providing unique content, including blogs, social networking, podcasts and video. 5. Produce regular enterprise stories, making certain to help plan for graphics, photos, charts and other display elements. 6. Be creative, original and imaginative, producing work that is smart and unique in the marketplace. 7. Take initiative, showing ability to anticipate and plan ahead for coverage. 8. Maintain strong, regular communication with other reporters on and off the beat and with editors so that story ideas can be executed quickly and efficiently and there is no overlap. 9. Develop sources in and around the team and the league who can provide inside information on the Vikings. 10. Meet deadlines and assigned story lengths. 11. Contribute interpretation or analysis to facts and news events. 12. Work with only general supervision. 13 Conduct investigative interviews. 14. Have the ability to follow a story and develop it. 15. Use independent judgment and direction.
Education: The job requires experience in breaking stories, an intense knowledge of the NFL and in most cases requires a four-year college degree.
Experience: In most cases, the job requires daily deadline experience covering professional or major college sports.
Schedule: Hours and day vary according to Vikings schedule. This is a full-time Guild position, A-scale pay. Job will receive Guild benefits according to the Guild contract.
To apply contact: Mike Bass at mbass@pioneerpress.com or 651-228-5108
