Sports Technology Daily Journalist

What do they do?

• You will essentially become a beat writer and cover breaking stories where technology is impacting sports.
• You write and read about the latest technological innovations, ideas, and products that impact the fan experience, player performance, and sports industry and report it to a large audience.

Salary

• Sports Technology salaries currently range between $28,000 (25th percentile) to $49,000 (75th percentile) with top earners (90th percentile) making $61,000 annually across the United States.
• Sports Broadcasters have an average annual salary range of $14,000 to $92,000 per year.
• However Sports Technology Daily Journalism is a combination of the two would make about $45,151 per year.

Job Prospects

• Currently, here in Vancouver BC, a company called SportsTechie is offering an internship for this position.
• https://www.sporttechie.com

Benefits

• Get to know a sports media startup where you can grow far beyond writing
• Get an inside look at the latest technological innovations in the sports world
• Position yourself as a thought leader within a sports industry niche
• Network and meet new people within the journalism industry

Important Skills

• Pays strict attention to detail when writing and take pride in typo-free work
• Is a regular reader of online news and editorial content
• Has the ability to write on a daily basis and synthesize sports technology news
• Has strong writing, grammar and proofreading skills
• Has good public speaking skills and good at working with others

Drawbacks

• Requires lots of dedicated and focussed time.
• Requires consistent research to stay up to date with new developments within sports technology.
• Sports technology is a new and smaller field with not many available jobs.

Who does this appeal to?

• This job appeals to hard-working and curious people. This job is for confident, outspoken, team players who are looking to channel their “inner geek” and combine it with their strong passion for sports to create a news source that covers the intersection of sports and technology.

Education required

• To land a job in sports media or sports journalism, earn a bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, or English. Choose a program that has an extensive alumni network in the sports industry or is affiliated with industry professionals; this may open up job opportunities once you finish your degree.
• Choose a program that has an extensive alumni network in the sports industry or is affiliated with industry professionals; this may open up job opportunities once you finish your degree.
• For sports technology, it is a bit different. Since this is a new field, their are not set requirements you need to have this job. To better your chances a degree in journalism, technology, computer science, business would be useful however there are no set requirements as their would be for a doctor for example.

Am I a match?
As you can see from this screenshot from myBlueprint's compatibility test, I am 88% compatible with being a broadcaster. Broadcasting is a large part of the role a Sports Technology Daily Journalist plays at companies like SportsTechie for example.

Compatibility Survey Results?
I am 88% compatible with the other aspect of what a Sports Technology daily Journalist does as well. This would be researching and studying sports data.

Why did I choose this job?

• Sports Technology combines many things I love to do; Sports, whether this means watching, discussing or studying sports, Technology whether that's reading about new developments on working on them myself, Broadcasting, I love to talk, work with a team and journalism has always looked fun, and finally writing. My coach actually mentioned a job like this would be perfect for me which made me want to research it more and found out how much I like it!

Thank You!!