The Laredo Morning Times is looking for a knowledgeable full-time Sports Reporter.
LMT publishes a daily newspaper and a weekly in-depth sports tabloid, 956 Sports Unlimited. Our Sports department covers four local professional teams (soccer, baseball, hockey, and indoor football), seven local high schools — including boys' and girls' athletics — and two collegiate programs. Laredo is home to championship boxers and horse trainers, along with a wide spectrum of alternative athletics. The rich sports enviornment requires its sports reporters to share its vigor.
An affinity for working with strict, rigid deadlines and word constraints is a must. The ability to cover games, along with writing human interest, features, enterprise, opinion columns is required. Applicants should be able to follow AP format and approach stories from unique and compelling angles, while working on individual ideas and motivation.
Applicants should have at least a bachelors degree.
Please email sports editor Adam Geigerman (AGeigerman@lmtonline.com) to apply. Include a cover letter, detailed resume and at least five clippings. Also, please indicate the best time to reach you.
Laredo, Texas is America’s busiest inland port, handling almost half of the nation’s trade along its border with Mexico. The Laredo Morning Times has been an important part of life and commerce in the area since 1881, and has been a Hearst newspaper since 1984. On a typical day, circulation on both sides of the Rio Grande is in excess of 21,000 copies, with more than 63,000 adult readers. Every day the company publishes El Tiempo, a Spanish language supplement of news, sports and social highlights. In addition to the daily newspaper, the company publishes El Mercadito, which is delivered to every home in the region. Periodically, the Laredo Morning Times prints 60,000 copies of Spanish language publications and distributes these in Monterrey, Mexico. Over the years, the Laredo Morning Times has earned numerous awards for editorial excellence.
