High School Sports Clerk

The Dallas Morning News has an opening for a part-time sports clerk. This position's primary job will be to edit and format statistical information for print and digital use.

Job Responsibilities

Data entry of raw statistics

• Communicating with other editors so stats complement stories and fit available space
• Proofing pages for errors in headlines, stories and captions
• Occasionally answering phones and taking dictation of results or stories

• Here’s our list of preferred skills and experience: (Please note this is not a checklist of requirements, but
• should be considered as a pool of preferred qualifications. If you can already do some of these things, great. If
• you're excited about figuring out how to do all of them, great! We'd love to hear from you either way.)

• 1-3 years of journalism experience; bachelor's degree or progress toward
• Broad knowledge of sports and their statistics
• An eye for detail and accuracy
• Ability to multi-task
• Capable of performing under tight deadlines
• Ability to design pages is a plus

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