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Title: Deputy Editor, Clips Nation (Los Angeles Clippers) Location: Remote Vox Media employees thrive on innovation and change while ambitiously seeking to master their subject areas, hone their craft, and improve their communities. We help smart, talented, creative professionals make a meaningful impact in media, technology and the world around them. The Vox Media house of network includes industry-leading media forces like SB Nation, Eater, The Verge, Vox, Curbed, Recode, Racked and Polygon, and reaches an audience of hundreds of millions, generating over a billion content views each month. Come internet with us! SB Nation’s NBA team site covering the Los Angeles Clippers is looking for more talent to add to their tremendous staff. We value writers that help enrich discussion on our sites, promote our material on social media and cover everything entailed with basketball. Bring your strong voice and opinions and share your thoughts with the world. Your chance for greatness is at hand. The Skinny Joining the exclusive staff of one of our team sites gives you one of the more prominent voices in the basketball community. Team fan bases are always ravenously consuming our material, and you’ll have a chance to speak to the masses through our wide-reaching SB Nation platform. Some of our staff have used their time with us as a springboard into other professional writing gigs with us and other media companies. While that’s definitely not the goal of everyone here, it’s a beautiful and very real perk for your efforts on the site. Write. Read. Grow. The Staff We Need- Deputy Editor Individual in this role will assist and support the Managing Editor of our Los Angeles Clippers coverage. Key responsibilities include making sure that the site is publishing every day, at a volume high enough for growth. Have the organizational skills to help manage a staff of multiple people. Be able to produce and edit clean copy, as well as provide in-depth analysis on the team. Must be comfortable working in a remote environment. Some daytime availability, to help ensure daily content is being posted and breaking news is addressed, will be required. Flexibility is preferred. Please share your past experience managing a staff or running a site, in addition to previous work samples, upon applying. Minimum Qualifications You are a huge fan of basketball and passionate follower of your team and have experience writing about these topics. If you don’t yet have the experience you can join your favorite team site and start writing FanPosts. It’s how many of our writers got their start. You can take the thoughts inside your head and transcribe them into competent arrangements of English words that effectively communicate your idea, i.e., you need to be able to write complete sentences. And more! You have strong opinions on your team that have not been yet been brought to the foreground. You have strong opinions on issues that have already been brought to the foreground but need some additional perspective. You take genuine pride in your writing, your discussions and how you gather facts and data to back them up. You have experience managing a staff and/or running a relevant site. Preferred qualifications You are an active member of one of our communities who submits FanPosts or FanShots or are very interested in figuring out how the site operates and communicates. You are active on Twitter and/or Facebook, spending time looking for fresh news and analysis of your team. You enjoy discussing your team on our website(s) and want to enrich the discussion in our comments. You are a self-starter, someone who can take initiative with respective tasks. Please provide writing samples and let us know what role you’re interested in upon applying. Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds, and everyone is encouraged to apply. Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.