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Sports Editor

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Butte Montana Standard

Butte, MT (In Person)

Full-Time

Posted 1 week ago (Updated 1 week ago) • Actively hiring

Expires 7/29/2026

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Job Description

SportsEditor-Butte, MTThe MontanaStandard in Butte is seeking an innovative, digital-first sports leader to workwith a statewide team of editors and reporters to drive coverage of local highschool athletics, two NCAA Division I universities and six NAIA colleges.

The idealcandidate will be a jack-of-all-trades. You'll write, edit and coach. You'llnetwork and build relationships. You'll organize and strategize coverage -including video and photo elements - on local high schools, two NAIA collegesand be part of statewide coverage throughout the year. You'll use analytics toinform decision-making. This position will report to the statewide sportsdirector.

The Standardsports editor will also play a prominent leadership role for 406mtsports.com,the statewide sports website for Lee Enterprises, bringing together coveragefrom across the Last Best Place - including high schools from Billings toMissoula, the Big Sky Conference with Montana and Montana State, and the NAIA'sFrontier Conference including Montana Tech in Butte and Montana Western inDillon.

Butte is tough,proud, and unpolished in all the right ways.

Situated on theContinental Divide, it's a town built by miners and makers, where history andcommunity spirit run deep. Uptown's historic brick buildings and neon signs arehome to a growing mix of restaurants, coffee shops, galleries and music venues.

For those seeking Montana's great outdoors, Butte, with a population of justover 35,000, offers front-door access to some of the best hiking, skiing,fishing, and exploring in the state.

Why Join Us?

Lee Enterprisesoffers competitive wages in a dynamic, interesting work environment with careergrowth opportunities. We offer anextensive benefit program that can be personalized to your needs. Our benefitprogram includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability,company provided life insurance and supplemental life insurance. In addition,we offer a 401K retirement plan with company match. We also offer generous paid time off to allowflexibility to balance personal life and work. This includes paid parental leave for new parents. Lee Enterprisesis a leading provider of local news and information and a major subscriptionand advertising platform, with daily and weekly newspapers and rapidly expandingdigital products serving 114 markets across 25 states. Our core commitment isto provide valuable, intensely local news and information to the communities weserve.

Lee Enterprisesis proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We respect and celebratediversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for allemployees. For moreinformation about Lee, check us out at www.lee.net.