| Date Posted | November 06, 2025 |
|---|---|
| Industry | Newspapers |
| Specialty | Not Specified |
| Required Education | Bachelor's Degree |
| Job Status | Full-time |
| Salary | $29,000-$32,500 |
Description:
Are you ready to take your sports writing career to the next level? If you’re looking for a position with a daily newspaper in a market with strong preps coverage and loyal readers, the Greenwood (S.C.) Index-Journal could be the right fit for your next career move.
The IJ is a small community daily that places a premium on good work, strong work ethic and talent, and we are looking for a talented, energetic and aggressive sports writer to join our award-winning team.
We’re no second-rate publication. We take pride in our work, and it shows in the number of S.C. Press Association awards we have received through the years. And that includes numerous awards for sports feature and news writing. We cover a dozen schools — public and private — and have two colleges we cover, Lander University and Erskine College. There’s plenty to be covered — yes, including football. And there’s plenty of talent in our schools to supply a good flow of feature material to bolster your portfolio.
We’re a family-owned newspaper, which means we don’t have the corporate newspaper shockwaves rippling through our newsroom. We recognize that solid local content is what brings readers back to our newspaper and website.
We want to challenge the regular parameters attached to small papers. We believe the best way for a newspaper to succeed in this economic climate is to put out the best product possible.
The ideal candidate must understand local sports matter and be able to convey that through stories and photos. He or she must also understand the importance of digital-first journalism, using social media and video to tell their stories. The ideal candidate must be aggressive, creative and thorough. Key ingredients are pride in work and a passion for journalism.
We’ve hired journalists from California to Florida. Our hires have had degrees from Missouri, Florida, Wisconsin, Colorado, Ohio, Northwestern (master’s degree) and Georgia (master’s degree).
If you think this sounds like a good fit for you and you have the desire to help us continue our award-winning, public-serving publication, let us hear from you.
If interested, please send a cover letter, résumé, at least five writing samples to: mprice@indexjournal.com
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