SPORTS REPORTER-Butte, MT 406mtsports.com at Lee Enterprises Inc in Butte, Montana

Job Description:

SPORTS REPORTER, Butte, MT
406mtsports.com

The go-to sports website in Montana is seeking an ambitious and enterprising reporter to cover high schools in southwestern Montana and be part of team coverage featuring two NAIA athletic programs.

This is a full-time position that will work out of The Montana Standard newsroom. The ideal candidate will be a jack-of-all-trades, writing features, covering games, building relationships, and helping to manage print page production.

406mtsports.com is Lee Enterprises' statewide sports website, bringing together coverage from across the Last Best Place - including high schools from Billings to Missoula to Kalispell, the NCAA Division I Big Sky Conference with Montana and Montana State, and the NAIA's Frontier Conference with Carroll College in Helena, Montana Tech in Butte, Montana Western in Dillon and Rocky Mountain College in Billings.

The fifth largest city in Montana with a population of about 35,000, Butte is situated in the northern Rocky Mountains on the Continental Divide. Uptown Butte - don't call it downtown - is on the National Register of Historic Places with an architecturally pleasing downtown and one of the neatest restaurants in the state, Casagranda's Steakhouse.

There are two major retail developments in the works in Butte, which is located about an hour west of Bozeman and two hours southeast of Missoula on Interstate 90.

Why Join Us?

Lee Enterprises, Inc. 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.

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 74 markets in 26 states. Year to date, Lee's newspapers have an average daily circulation of 1.0 million, and our legacy websites, including acquisitions, reach more than 34 million digital unique visitors.

Lee Enterprises is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to attracting and retaining a workforce whose diversity reflects the communities we serve. Lee embraces change, and we recognize that we must create and maintain a culture of fervent inclusion. 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 at https://lee.net/careers/ and search for Butte. Be sure to include a cover letter, resume, and links to clip (or clips) of your work.
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