Overview

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Come internet with us!

SB Nation’s NBA team site covering the New York Knicks 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-

Contributor: Game Day Coverage

The staple of SB Nation — one of the reasons people come to us and trust our coverage. There’s, at minimum, 90 games to cover every season (don’t forget those 8 preseason games!) and maybe even a postseason swath that’s even more intensely covered. For every game we have a preview, a live GameThread and post-game coverage that includes a quick recap (posted within a half hour of game’s end) and a full recap (in-depth analysis to be posted the next morning).

Someone interested in this type of writing could be involved in all of those aspects or be solely committed to helping with one of them.The people we need helping with this endeavor should be able to write concisely and would operate effectively on a schedule. Creative individuals who enjoy including videos and creating GIFs to enhance their analysis are especially encouraged to apply. Much like the News Reporting, Game Day Coverage usually provides the jumpstart for conversations and sets the tone after a win or loss.

Game Day coverage is generally shared among the site staff and involves both preview and recap duties.

Contributor: Features and Analysis

There’s obviously a ton of material that can be self generated on each team and isn’t reliant on news or game play for inspiration. We have all types of content flavors on our sites: film breakdowns, trade speculation, reaction to pop culture, silly lists, game diaries, and statistical analysis.

Perhaps your forte isn’t NBA X’s & O’s, we still have a bevy of outlets into which you can pour your writer’s soul. Or maybe you’ve got a brand new idea for the site that you want to develop — we’re always on the lookout for passion and opinions. Ideally, people who are interested in this role would have some prior writing/blogging experience and be able to write lengthier pieces. These types of articles aren’t as time-sensitive as the news and game coverage.

What you’ll bring:

Minimum qualifications

  1. 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 experience you can join your favorite team site and start writing FanPosts. It’s how many of our writers got their start.
  2. 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!
  3. You have strong opinions on your team that have not been yet been brought to the foreground.
  4. You have strong opinions on issues that have already been brought to the foreground but need some additional perspective.
  5. You take genuine pride in your writing, your discussions and how you gather facts and data to back them up.
  6. Please provide writing samples and let us know what role you’re interested in upon applying.

Preferred qualifications

  1. 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.
  2. You are active on Twitter and/or Facebook, spending time looking for fresh news and analysis of your team.
  3. You enjoy discussing your team on our website(s) and want to enrich the discussion in our comments.
  4. You are a self-starter, someone who can take initiative with respective tasks.

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.