What are the responsibilities and job description for the Freelance Editorial Producer position at Sterling Entertainment Enterprises, LLC?
SNY is an Emmy Award–winning regional sports media company delivering content across linear television and digital platforms. SNY provides unmatched, exclusive coverage of the New York Mets, New York Jets, and all things New York sports. As the Tri-State area’s leader in local sports coverage, SNY offers comprehensive access to professional and collegiate teams through exclusive live games, nightly sports shows, and original programming. SNY also delivers real-time New York sports news and exclusive digital series on SNY.tv and across its social channels, including YouTube, Facebook, X, and Instagram. SNY is available to viewers throughout New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and northeastern Pennsylvania, and nationally through select providers.
Position Overview:
Freelance Editorial Producers help write, edit, manage and coordinate content across SNY platforms, delivering relevant stories while using data to help drive decisions. Freelance Editorial Producers, reporting to the Director of Editorial Content and Platforms, will help ensure that SNY provides users with the most timely and engaging New York sports content possible. This role will primarily cover shifts on nights and weekends, though some earlier weekday shifts at times become available.
Responsibilities:
- Proactively propose original, timely and innovative stories covering New York sports.
- Write, edit and post stories on deadline to our digital properties utilizing a content management system and other digital tools.
- Help post and manage the placement of content on the SNY home page that reflects the most relevant and timely news in New York sports.
- Write on various events (games, practices, etc.) and provide articles in timely manner covering the key news/storylines of the day.
- Promote content with journalistically accurate, creative, engaging and SEO-friendly headlines.
- Assist the Director of Editorial Content and Platforms with updating editorial calendar, working with insiders, video and social team to develop story ideas and make sure our work is being tracked.
- Proactively search for latest and relevant content around the web, social media and other platforms that can be spun into stories relevant to our fans (“content mining”).
- Help manage homepage alerts.
Qualifications:
- Must be a passionate and accurate writer/editor with a deep knowledge of New York sports and its professional and collegiate teams, who knows how to aggregate, find and publish engaging sports content.
- Minimum 2 years’ experience editing & writing digital sports content
- Willingness to work off-hours and on weekends with short notice – shifts range anywhere from as early as 8 a.m. and as late as 2 a.m. A Freelance Editorial Producer may work anywhere from about 8 to 24 hours per week, depending on availability.
- Willingness to work on holidays is required.
- Bachelor’s Degree is required; degree in Journalism, English, Marketing/Advertising, Communication or relevant area is preferred.
- High level social/mobile media understanding. Candidate should have high proficiency using Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, smartphones and tablet devices. Checking blogs, monitoring major sports sites, and following sports media personalities on Twitter/X are all examples of activities an ideal candidate would perform on a daily basis.
- Possess strong writing and communication skills, ideally familiar with AP Style. Editing skills/experience is a must; formal editing background is not required but a keen eye for punctuation and grammar is important.
- Candidate should be familiar with using a Content Management System (CMS).
- Ability to multi-task and work in a time-sensitive environment, with previous experience in a breaking news environment a plus. Organized, detail-oriented individual with strong work ethic, strong communication and problem-solving skills.
Location: New York, NY