Senior Editor, Evergreen – From $60,000 a year

The Sporting News is hiring a Senior Editor to launch and grow our evergreen editorial content catalog for sports fans.

 

This editor will work closely with the daily desk to manage the planning, production, and maintenance of SEO-driven editorial content that lives beyond news cycles and Google algorithm shifts, including guides, lists, contextual explainers, and more.

 

At The Sporting News, crafted for sports fans since 1886, we aim to serve readers through explanatory journalism. Our ideal Evergreen Editor deeply understands how to optimize user intent-driven storytelling with a background in audience development. Daily, you will be focused on long-term planning across the North American multisport tentpoles calendar, tracking SEO keyword and article performance around those topics, and coordinating updates to improve the depth and relevance of our content. Beyond the sports calendar, you’ll create ideas to help build The Sporting News into an authoritative encyclopedic source, something that has been part of our DNA for more than a century.

 

The Evergreen Editor will also play a vital role in ensuring the overall quality of our website — looking for ways to strengthen stories, improve copy, and build the best user experience possible across our platforms.

 

WHEN AND WHERE IS IT?

 

• Reports to Assistant Managing Editor, News and Operations
• Pay: starting at $60k/year depending on experience, 40 hours/week
• Location: Remote or based in our Charlotte, NC headquarters
• PLEASE APPLY BY March 7th!

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

 

• Build and maintain a catalog of evergreen articles for sports fans
• Edit written content for accuracy, style and grammar, as well as working with the team on effective SEO headline writing and on-page best practices
• Comprehensive SEO planning, including keyword research for evergreen topics and tentpole events
• Manage SN’s linking guidelines and track article updates
• Use audience tools to track the ebbs and flows in SN’s keyword visibility
• Maintain tentpole events calendar and budgets
• Help develop ways to enhance user experience beyond text with embedded graphics, stats and other multimedia
• Ideate with other writers and editors on tentpole plans and special projects
• General site management, including programming evergreen content

QUALIFICATIONS

 

• 2-plus year of experience in an evergreen or audience development editor role
• High-level understanding of SEO concepts and best practices, and how to utilize them to shape content strategy
• Expertise in most major North American sports, and a willingness to learn others outside your comfort zone
• Mastery of writing clean, concise copy that explains to readers what is happening and why
• Sharp and creative news judgment instincts to discern interesting content from noise
• Adept at crafting engaging headlines that stand out — and how to make a boring one better
• Strong editing skills to improve a story, and the coaching skills to explain why those changes were made
• An eye for smart data, graphics and other visual ideas to enhance storytelling

BENEFITS INCLUDE

 

You’ll receive up to 15 days of paid annual leave, 10 paid sick days, and 10 paid holidays, affordable health benefits (dental and vision included), competitive parental leave, short and long-term disability paid by the company, basic life-term insurance and personal accident insurance paid by the company, 401(k) and flexible work environment.

 

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:

 

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.