Job Description
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Role Description
- This role involves writing for Curveball, our sports-adjacent pop culture vertical, covering the side of sports that lives off the field.
- Write sports-adjacent pop culture and athlete lifestyle stories
- Cover celebrity relationships, viral moments, controversies, and cultural conversations tied to sports
- Create timely, trend-driven content optimized specifically for the NewsBreak audience
- Qualifications
- Proven experience writing sports-adjacent pop culture or athlete lifestyle content
- Strong understanding of NewsBreak's audience and content style
- Ability to write fast, clear, engaging stories with strong hooks
- Comfort working in a deadline-driven environment
- Familiarity with digital publishing best practices
- Requirements
- Previous experience writing for NewsBreak or similar aggregation platforms (nice to have)
- Background in sports, entertainment, or celebrity news (nice to have)
- Ability to spot trends early and pitch timely story ideas (nice to have)
- Benefits
- Consistent publishing opportunities
- Clear editorial lane
- Opportunities for increased volume and long-term collaboration for writers who perform well
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