Sports Copy Editor

The Wisconsin State Journal, a division of Lee Enterprises, is seeking a self-motivated journalist to help our Lee Sports Wisconsin team, which is made up of newspapers across the state, captivate and engage audiences by joining our award-winning staff as a sports copy editor.

We are looking for an individual who enjoys having a hand in multiple parts of telling a good story and attracting an audience to it. This person will be a member of a four-person team that shepherds our award-winning print sections through the production process and maximizes a story’s potential to reach a broad digital audience.

The position will report to our deputy sports editor. You will be part of the state’s lone AP Sports Editors Triple Crown winner, a staff that encourages creativity and experimentation in how we tell stories. We want to empower you to help tell great stories while ensuring all our stories have the greatest potential to connect with our readers.

The right candidate will:

• Be dependable and comfortable multitasking to handle multiple deadlines
• Understand the importance of editing stories for style, completeness, fairness, grammar, spelling, accuracy, organization and conciseness
• Enjoy collaborating with others to tell bigger stories and tackle bigger issues
• Embrace the challenge of writing SEO-friendly headlines for our digital audience and catchy headlines for our print products
  
  
  

Why Join Us?

Lee Enterprises offers competitive wages in a dynamic, interesting work environment with career growth opportunities. We offer an extensive benefit program that can be personalized to your needs. Our benefit program includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, company provided life insurance and supplemental life insurance. In addition, we offer a 401K retirement plan with company match. We also offer generous paid time off to allow the flexibility to balance personal life and work. This includes paid parental leave for new parents.

Why join us?

Lee Enterprises is a major subscription and advertising platform and a leading provider of local news and information, with daily newspapers, rapidly growing digital products and nearly 350 weekly and specialty publications serving 73 markets in 26 states. Our core commitment is to provide valuable, intensely local news and information to the communities we serve.

Lee Enterprises is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We respect and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. For more information about Lee, check us out at www.lee.net .

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role but do not meet 100% of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply.

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