Sports Journalist

EssentiallySports is hiring Sports content editors to add to our energetic and passionate editorial team! EssentiallySports is one of the leading sports entertainment digital media publications in the world and continues to grow exponentially with each passing day. We garner 100M+ page views a month and plan on continuing our upward trajectory until we are the best in the business. We strongly believe that editors have the highest authority when it comes to all the content we create to cater to our millions of readers. The editorial team is responsible for verifying the legitimacy of statistical data and facts, proofreading, and enhancing the quality of content before it goes live on our website. While we value inherent skills and talent at EssentiallySports, we believe intent, attitude and passion matter more than anything else. Responsibilities:

• Actively editing and publishing 20-25 articles daily.
• Proofreading articles to ensure no avoidable errors - grammatical or otherwise - remain and checking plagiarism in the articles before they’re published.
• Researching to ensure veracity of facts as well as identifying incorrect claims and eliminating them immediately.
• Publishing of articles in a timely fashion for priority news-based articles.
• Mentoring and guiding an allocated set of writers to refine and boost their quality, output and overall performance.
• Ensuring smooth daily operations of writers in the Tennis division.
• Undertaking other key duties as instructed by the Editorial Team Lead.

• You are an avid sports enthusiast or are keenly interested in picking up nuances of the sport.
• You have a good grasp of the fundamentals of the English language and are accustomed to American culture.
• You are quick with fact-checking and enhancing the editorial quality of content.
• You take ownership of publishing articles on time and are flexible for event-coverage days.
• You have leadership qualities, are a good judge of character, and have a knack for people management.
• You have a keen eye for enticing titles and subheadings and possess basic SEO knowledge.

• A minimum of 6-12 months of experience in proofreading and/or content editing
• Prior experience of leading a team of writers would be an additional plus

• Completely remote working space
• Flexible working hours