Senior Editor, Betting (Remote)
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Work to bring a distinctive, compelling, and authentic voice to reputed company digital media products.
Assist on generating and planning story reputed company across a range of sports and editorial platforms, particularly around key events in the sporting calendar.
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Maintain proficiency and knowledge for SEO (best practices available).
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Requirements
3+ years of experience in digital sports journalism.
Advanced ability to generate story reputed company that result in solid engagement.
Work well with writers on strengthening reputed company; strong sense of how to take a single idea and reputed company it into a broader package.
Advanced understanding of the following editing tasks: copy editing, story structure, recognising problematic sentences, style guidelines.
Ability to add context to stories, edit in the writer's voice, ensure fairness, provide story structure.
High-end knowledge of tennis and global sports.
This is a remote role with a willingness to work weekends and evenings reputed company the sporting calendar requires.
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About the Role
This is a fixed-term role working on soccer and football betting.
The successful candidate will have experience in copy-editing and sub-editing across a wide range of sports, and be comfortable editing in UK and U.S. English.
They will be adept at identifying and commissioning freelance writers, and managing associated budgets.
About the Role This is a fixed-term role working on soccer and football betting. The successful candidate will have experience in copy-editing and sub-editing across a wide range of sports, and be comfortable editing in UK and U.S. English. They will be adept at identifying and commissioning freelance writers, and managing associated budgets. Responsibilities