Re: Official 2016 Detroit Tigers Thread

[Guest]

Here's a job for someone Iott announced yesterday on the twitterz that he was leaving.....

JournalismJobs.com - Job Listing - Lead Tigers Reporter

MLive is seeking a Lead Tigers Reporter.

The Lead Tigers Reporter has the primary responsibility for covering the team and the season year-round. The reporter tells the story of the games and the players, and goes beyond the results to bring readers engaging analysis, striking commentary and offbeat features.

While it’s important that this reporter be on top of important breaking news, it’s critical that they not follow the lead of other media. MLive’s Tigers coverage must set the tone for how it’s done. This reporter must quickly spot and report on trending stories and also find the unique angles that will set our coverage apart.

This reporter must also have an audience focus and think like a fan, anticipating questions they’ll ask, plays they’ll be talking about and angles that will intrigue them. Do not confuse this with writing as a fan. The reporter must be comfortable asking the hard questions when situations call for it, which means developing authority on the beat and the relationships to make those connections possible.

Beyond knowing the beat, the Lead Tigers Reporter must have a passion for telling stories and presenting content creatively. That means geeking out on data, thinking about how multimedia might help tell a story and working with others as needed to see a project through.

It’s also essential that this reporter know what resonates on different platforms – desktop, mobile and social – and both experience those platforms as a user and craft content geared toward them.

Finally, the Lead Tigers Reporter will lead discussions with the audience on the website and on social media, answering questions and comments and incorporating them into coverage whenever possible.


Required Education, Experience and Skills:
• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism or Communications or related field required
• Minimum of 3 years of pro sports beat writing experience, including demonstrated ability to break news
• Established contacts on the beat and an ability to build and nurture new ones
• Proven ability to report and write on deadline with minimal guidance as needed, and effectively collaborate as stories dictate
• Demonstrated experience with storytelling in alternative formats, like data-driven stories and multimedia presentations
• Experience engaging with audiences on websites and social media
• Proven ability capture photos, video and audio and embed them in content
• Understanding of the methods and tools used to deliver content across a variety of platforms such as blogging platforms, video and photo gallery portals and budgeting and archiving systems
• Familiarity with analytics tools and experience using them to track content performance
• Experience with SEO, HTML, and data manipulation/visualization a plus

Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Cover and nurture the Tigers beat:
• Attend practices and games and other team activities on a regular basis; build interest by reporting on lineups and news that comes out of player and staff availability and proactively write about intriguing in-game action as well as the game results.
• Establish contacts within and outside of the Tigers organization to build a reliable source pipeline and maintain frequent contact with those contacts for comment.
• Break news on the beat regarding trades, contracts and other personnel-related moves.
• Quickly aggregate relevant coverage from other news outlets and follow up as needed.
• Identify storylines about the players and the team that go beyond the game and follow them with compelling features.
• Develop an authoritative voice on the beat and assert it with powerful analysis and commentary.
2. Differentiate the beat with special projects:
• Mine game storylines for trends on team and player performance and spin them into interesting data-driven narratives, including searchable databases where relevant.
• Create multimedia content (slideshows, videos, gifs) that suit the subject and give fans an alternative way to experience content.
• Monitor and engage in reader comments and social media to source ideas, and elevate comments and social media chatter into new posts when appropriate.
3. Collaborate with backup reporters and larger team as needed
• Communicate effectively on coverage to establish and understanding of swim lanes and reach out proactively so coverage is not missed.
• Coordinate as needed to enable deeper dives on projects.
4. Maximize audience to content through optimization, promotion and tracking analytics
• Closely watch analytics to gauge audience reaction and adjust accordingly.
• Advocate for promotion of content on the website and social media and promote it via personal channels.
5. Tweak content to capture the most traffic based on audience trends; smartly link, embed videos and photo galleries and craft headlines that will intrigue readers.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements:
General Office Environment. Significant travel required.

[Floyd Robertson]

Busted Coverage ‏@bustedcoverage 6m6 minutes ago
Justin Verlander celebrates 2,000 strikeouts with Kate Upton and penguins at Detroit Zoo http://bustedcoverage.com/2016/05/19/justin-verlander-kate-upton-at-detroit-zoo-photos-instagram-penguins/ …

[Guest]

Wojo: Tigers must show their real stripes soon

[steveschneider]

Wojo: Tigers must show their real stripes soon

More or less what I was saying above. Tigers have potential to go on a very nice run for the rest of the month and into June. The real test IMO is when they start facing central division opponents again. anxious to see them vs the sox and royals.

[Guest]

I really had no hope that he would help - maybe he really is a different player all these years later.
Cameron Maybin, the name that keeps coming up in the Detroit Tigers clubhouse

This should be really fun - Gibby & Enberg in the booth.
'Oh my': Enberg thrilled to call Saturday's Tigers game

[Floyd Robertson]

I really had no hope that he would help - maybe he really is a different player all these years later.
Cameron Maybin, the name that keeps coming up in the Detroit Tigers clubhouse

This should be really fun - Gibby & Enberg in the booth.
'Oh my': Enberg thrilled to call Saturday's Tigers game

I never paid attention to Maybin after the Miggy trade, and we never really got to see him in a Tigers uniform.

Is is too early to say goodbye to Gose?

[steveschneider]

I really had no hope that he would help - maybe he really is a different player all these years later.
Cameron Maybin, the name that keeps coming up in the Detroit Tigers clubhouse

This should be really fun - Gibby & Enberg in the booth.
'Oh my': Enberg thrilled to call Saturday's Tigers game

I never paid attention to Maybin after the Miggy trade, and we never really got to see him in a Tigers uniform.

Is is too early to say goodbye to Gose?

Should have kept Rajai over Gose if you ask me. He's so much better at driving in runners in scoring position. How many times have we come up empty with baseesloaded and Gose at the plate?

[WhiteBoyHatcher]

I've been to the new penguin house 3x already and we didn't get to feed them. This is bullshit. I need to trade in my wife for a supermodel.

[Guest]

I've been to the new penguin house 3x already and we didn't get to feed them. This is bullshit. I need to trade in my wife for a supermodel.

Maybe throw her in with the Journey deal?

[Guest]

Chris McCosky ‏@cmccosky 6m6 minutes ago
Tigers tonight: Kinsler 4, J. Martinez 9, Cabrera 3, V. Martinez DH, Castellanos 5, Upton 7, Maybin 8, McCann 2, Iglesias 6. Sanchez

[steveschneider]

Maybin getting things cooking

[Tim Wakefield]

Love Maybin

McCannon!! Hell of a pick and throw down to first

[steveschneider]

Love Maybin

McCannon!! Hell of a pick and throw down to first

Yeah, that throw to first was amazing. Just hit into a double though. I think the win streak ends tonight.

[Guest]

Iggy - Kinsler - JD - Miggy -

Need a runner and some power to tie this up.

[Guest]

Kinsler goes from a run scoring 2B to a K. Damn.

[steveschneider]

Bullshit strike zone.

[Guest]

Victor's the winning run if he can just park one.

[steveschneider]

Victor's the winning run if he can just park one.

Damn

[aualum06]

Pathetic walk to Morrison as the ball game

[Guest]

Fulmer’s numbers with Tigers don’t tell whole story

[Guest]

Dick Enberg's Hall of Fame journey runs from Armada to Comerica

[Guest]

[Floyd Robertson]

[Guest]

and we're getting Al back for a bit....

FOX Sports Detroit ‏@FOXSportsDet  25m25 minutes ago
.@23KGibby is joined by Dick Enberg for today's Tigers game. Al Kaline will join them at the top of the 4th inning.

[Travis of the Cosmos]

This is soooooo much better than rod and Mario.

Who needed to be fired like 3 years ago.

[Floyd Robertson]

Smyly is pitching a damn no hitter.

[The Pantry]

This is soooooo much better than rod and Mario.

Who needed to be fired like 3 years ago.

[Floyd Robertson]

Smyly is pitching a damn no hitter.

Maybin say enough of that shit.

[Travis of the Cosmos]

This is soooooo much better than rod and Mario.

Who needed to be fired like 3 years ago.

Fuck rod and mario. I'm over them.

[Guest]

Fuck rod and mario. I'm over them.

I'm ok with Mario - Rod wears me out at times. I'm enjoying the breaks from him over this year and last.

[Travis of the Cosmos]

I just think that unless you're, for a good timely example Dick Enberg, then your schtick is going to wear thin eventually. Those two have been doing games for 10+ years now and at this point I don't need the volume on to know what they are saying. It's about time to shuffle it up.

[Floyd Robertson]

Maybin with another single, hitting a paltry 10 for 15

[Floyd Robertson]

[Guest]

No matter how this turns out Fulmer has been damned impressive today.

[Floyd Robertson]

No matter how this turns out Fulmer has been damned impressive today.

Jason Beck ‏@beckjason 3m3 minutes ago
Michael Fulmer is first Tigers pitcher other than Verlander or Zimmermann to go 7 innings since Anibal Sanchez May 4 at Cleveland.

[Guest]

McCann!!! 2 run dinger.

[Floyd Robertson]

McDoes

[Guest]

Guess i didn't know this....

Jason Beck ‏@beckjason 20s20 seconds ago
James McCann, Drew Smyly's catcher at Arkansas, just got his old college teammate for go-ahead 2-run HR.

[steveschneider]

Boom!!!!

[steveschneider]

Guess i didn't know this....

Jason Beck ‏@beckjason 20s20 seconds ago
James McCann, Drew Smyly's catcher at Arkansas, just got his old college teammate for go-ahead 2-run HR.

The more you know!

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