Advance Local

Multimedia Content Creator, HS Sports

Advance Local  •  $55k - $60k/yr  •  Iselin, NJ (Onsite)  •  17 days ago
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Job Description

Strengthening and empowering all of the communities we serve.

NJ Advance Media is seeking a dynamic Multimedia Content Creator to join our industry-leading High School Sports team. In this role, you’ll help drive NJ.com’s off-site audience growth, elevate sponsorable products, and reach the next generation of sports fans — especially student-athletes — on the platforms they use every day. You'll have the opportunity to experiment with format, tone and style to gain an understanding of what resonates with younger audiences.

We’re looking for a multimedia creator with on-air presence who can report, host, produce, announce, and innovate across multiple platforms - a digitally fluent storyteller who thrives in front of and behind the camera, and is adaptable, collaborative, and passionate about telling great stories in new ways.

If you have a strong reporting background, proven experience building relationships, breaking news, and providing evaluation and analysis essential for NJ.com’s signature rankings plus are comfortable hosting podcasts, appearing on camera, contributing to livestreams, and producing engaging short-form content for social platforms, we want to hear from you!

The base salary range is $55,000 - $60,000 per year.

This job requires reliable transportation to meet with sources or cover events.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Report on a designated high school sport each season as part of a collaborative team
  • Produce timely, accurate, and compelling content, including breaking news, features, previews, rankings, and analysis
  • Build strong relationships with coaches, athletes, families, and the HS sports community
  • Serve as host and producer of NJ.com’s weekly high school sports podcasts, building rundowns, and developing themes to shape the show’s editorial identity
  • Coordinate with reporters, editors, managers, social producers, and guests to reach younger audiences
  • Act as play-by-play announcer for NJ.com’s live-streamed high school sports broadcasts, collaborating with producers, camera operators, and color analysts
  • Provide pregame insights, storylines, and context to enhance broadcasts for audiences and sponsors
  • Create video optimized for NJ.com’s branded social platforms
  • Experiment with interviews, roundtables, breakdowns, on-site segments, and new formats
  • Identify opportunities for new content series, verticals, and formats to drive growth across YouTube, audio platforms, social media, and emerging channels

Our ideal candidate will have the following:

  • A minimum of 2 years’ experience reporting on high school sports (or similar competitive environments)
  • Strong news judgment and the ability to generate compelling story ideas
  • On-air experience (podcasting, livestreams, video hosting)
  • Experience with digital-forward techniques (short-form video, social-first content, storytelling threads, live updates)
  • Ability to work quickly, accurately, and creatively under deadlines
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • A passion for innovation in sports storytelling
Advance Local

About Advance Local

Advance Local Media is one of the largest media groups in the United States, which operates the leading news and information companies in more than 20 cities, reaching 52+ million people monthly with our quality, real-time journalism and community engagement.

As home to some of the nation’s top local media groups, software and data platforms, and marketing agencies, Advance Local strives to make a positive and lasting impact in the communities we serve. A company grounded with rich history and driven by creative innovation, Advance Local’s mission is to strengthen and empower the communities we serve. Our media groups include Advance Ohio, Alabama Media Group, Advance Media New York, MassLive Media, MLive Media Group, NJ Advance Media, PA Media Group, and Staten Island Media Group.

We believe in our brands, our values, and each other and are united by our shared goals, culture of creative innovation and commitment to our communities we’ve been serving for more than a century.

We're part of Advance, a private, family-owned business that owns, operates and invests in companies spanning media, entertainment, technology, communications, education and other promising growth sectors. Their mission is to build the value of the company over the long-term by fostering growth and innovation across their diversified portfolio. Advance’s portfolio of exceptional companies includes Condé Nast, Advance Local, Stage Entertainment, The IRONMAN Group, American City Business Journals, Leaders Group, Turnitin, and POP. Advance is also among the largest shareholders in Charter Communications, Warner Bros. Discovery and Reddit.

For more details, please visit AdvanceLocal.com.

Industry
Media & Publishing
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
New York, NY
Year Founded
1922
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