Fantasy Football Editor (Fixed Term Contract)

About Your Role

The Sporting News is hiring a Fantasy Football Editor on a fixed-term basis to lead our coverage of fantasy football during the 2024 NFL season.

This hands-on role will be responsible for editing, publishing and updating content to ensure SN delivers a best-in-class experience to fantasy football players (season-long and DFS) seeking advice and information for their draft and lineup decisions.

We’re looking for an organized, detail-oriented editor who can blend expert-level knowledge of the NFL, an understanding of SEO best practices and sharp news judgment to drive audience results. In addition to managing our week-by-week fantasy publishing workflow, you will also be part of a team tasked with writing analysis around injuries, the waiver wire and other weekly advice columns impacting start and sit decisions.

Availability to work NFL Sundays and Mondays is required, but you will otherwise be able to set your own daily hours during the NFL season.

This is a remote six-month contract position beginning July 14, 2024. The role reports into the Senior Editor, NFL.

Responsibilities

• Edit written content for quality, accuracy, style and grammar
• Write timely and expert-level fantasy analysis around the NFL news cycle
• Update published content (such as weekly rankings) to ensure articles reflect the latest information in a changing news cycle
• Analyze search trends to inform headlines and SEO-friendly article formats
• Work with writers and editors to manage weekly fantasy publishing calendar
• Generate smart, helpful and relevant story ideas for a modern fantasy player
• Think beyond text to enhance user experience with embedded graphics, tables, stats and other multimedia
  
  

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of editing experience with a focus on the NFL or fantasy football
• Deep knowledge of NFL teams, players, and the nuances of fantasy sports
• Understanding of, and passion for, all types of fantasy football game formats — and experience playing in them
• Proven record of applying SEO best practices to boost article visibility on search engines
• Ability to work independently and meet tight deadlines
• Comfortable communicating remotely in a fast-paced news environment
• Flexibility to work nights, weekends and holidays as the NFL news cycle dictates
  
  

Not Essential But Great If You Also Have

• College degree in journalism or a related communications field
• Content marketing and/or social media marketing experience
• Experience managing freelance writers or leading a content production team
• A background in sports data analytics
  
  

About Sporting News, The Company

The underlying ethos of Sporting News is positivity and passion for sports. To help drive those tenets, we have three core objectives:

• Create the best media experience for sports fans. Wherever you are in the world, whatever device you choose, we want Sporting News to offer the best fan experience possible through the creation of quality, interesting content.
• Develop a work experience that people want to be part of. We want to identify talented, motivated staff who work hard, enjoy their job, support their team… and have fun while doing it.
• Build a fantastic, growing business. We want to deliver for our brand and our partners while achieving our commercial goals, ultimately using our scale for good.
  
  

At Sporting News, we celebrate the diversity of our employees and our leadership. Sporting News is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

About Sporting News, The Brand

One of the world’s most iconic sports brands, The Sporting News was founded in 1886 as a weekly U.S. newspaper. Later transitioning to a magazine, it became the dominant sports publication, acquiring nicknames like "The Nation's Oldest & Finest Sports Paper" and "The Bible of Baseball."

Sporting News is now a dynamic digital publisher offering a trusted perspective across multiple sports and topics all over the world. It features localized editions in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Australia, India, Japan, Spain, and Argentina, with more territories and languages across the world.

TIMELESS & CRAFTED. No publisher has the heritage of The Sporting News (TSN). Established in 1886, it became the essential source for baseball and boxing content.

IMAGINATIVE & SCALABLE. Fast forward to today, TSN now covers all major sports worldwide with 15 local editions, leveraging a global network that understands local market nuance.

RELIABLE & RELATABLE. With a historic, trusted brand and unprecedented local media knowledge, TSN will be the leading international sports portal for right holders, gaming partners, advertisers, broadcasters ... and most importantly, fans.

Acquired by an international investment group in 2021 with deep sports, media and gaming experience, TSN is poised to become the first truly global digital sports media platform business.