Open-rank clinical professor (sports digital reporting and editing)

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University seeks an experienced and innovative sports journalist to teach and lead a team of advanced undergraduate and graduate students in reporting writing editing and publishing digital sports content in the Cronkite News Phoenix Sports Bureau.

The CN Phoenix Sports Bureau is a capstone course for students completing bachelors or masters degrees in sports journalism. Based in the heart of downtown Phoenix the Sports Bureau offers unparalleled access to one of the most vibrant sports markets in the country. Students cover professional collegiate and high school athletics while producing multiplatform contenttext photo video and social media for Cronkite News and professional outlets nationwide. Reporters work on both daily and enterprise stories producing deep nuanced coverage of the defining issues of our time.

This faculty role combines editorial leadership mentorship and teaching ensuring students develop professional-level skills in digital journalism while maintaining the highest standards of accuracy fairness and thoroughness. Success in this position is measured by the success of students who apply knowledge and skills from previous courses in this rigorous newsroom experience preparing to excel as leaders across sports media industries.

The successful candidate for this position will be a sports journalist of the highest caliber with strong digital editing experience a creative thinker who is comfortable in a highly energized news environment and a student-first instructor inspired by the future of sports media.

As a member of the Cronkite School faculty the professor will have teaching and service this role there are no research or creative activity responsibilities.

This is a full-time benefits-eligible 12-month (not academic year) position on ASUs Downtown Phoenix Campus with a faculty rank based on qualifications and experience. This position is not eligible for tenure.

Essential Responsibilities

Leading editing teaching and mentoring a team of upper-level undergraduate and graduate journalism students in a full-time daily news environment in the Cronkite Schools Phoenix Sports Bureau on ASUs Downtown Phoenix campus

Coaching students through the ideation and reporting of compelling sports daily and enterprise stories

Guiding students in covering Arizonas professional and collegiate teams as well as high-profile events such as MLB Cactus League spring training 2026 FIFA World Cup events Olympics WM Phoenix Open and the 2026 NCAA Womens Final Four among others.

Providing rigorous editing and feedback on student work in preparation for publication on the Cronkite News website as well as for distribution to more than 150 clients across the country

Managing daily story assignments together with fellow Cronkite News faculty and collaboratively planning managing and producing innovative and professional digital sports content

Fostering a culture of innovation

Collaborating with other newsroom faculty students and staff to produce compelling storytelling across platforms

Performing service both internally (e.g. committee assignments student recruitment) and externally (e.g. professional workshops contest judging)

Performing other duties as assigned

About the Cronkite News Phoenix Sports Bureau

The Cronkite News Phoenix Sports Bureau is located in a state-of-the-art newsroom walking distance from stadiums that house the MLBs Arizona Diamondbacks the NBAs Phoenix Suns and the WNBAs Phoenix Mercury. Students work at least two full days a week producing sports video photos and text for professional media outlets and Cronkite News. Students go on to become award-winning sports journalists broadcasters and media professionals. Inside the Cronkite News Phoenix Sports Bureau students are not just learning about sports journalismtheyre living it.

About the Cronkite School

The Cronkite School is widely recognized as one of the nations premier colleges of journalism and mass communication. Rooted in the time-honored values that characterize its namesake accuracy responsibility integrity the school fosters excellence and ethics among students as they master the professional skills they need to succeed in the digital media world of today and tomorrow.

Located on ASUs Downtown Phoenix campus in the heart of the nations fifth largest city (with additional centers in Los Angeles and Washington D.C.) the school has more than 60 full-time faculty members composed of award-winning professional journalists strategic communication specialists and world-class media scholars.

The school champions a teaching hospital model of education for which it has received international acclaim. Cronkite News is among the schools signature immersive capstone programs in which students work in intensive real-world settings under the guidance of top-flight faculty.

About Arizona State University

Arizona State University ranked the No. 1 Most Innovative School in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for 10 years in succession has forged the model for a New American University. Repeatedly ranked No. 1 ASU has topped more than 20 lists in the last three years: No. 1 in the U.S. for global impact (Times Higher Education) and No. 1 in the U.S. for sustainable practices (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education).

ASU is a comprehensive public research institution measured not by whom it excludes but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic social cultural and overall health of the communities it serves. ASU operates on the principles that learning is a personal and original journey for each student; that they thrive on experience and that the process of discovery cannot be bound by traditional academic disciplines. Through innovation and a commitment to accessibility ASU has drawn pioneering researchers to its faculty even as it expands opportunities for qualified students attracting some of the highest-quality students from all 50 states and more than 130 nations.

Minimum Qualifications

Candidates must have a masters degree at the time of appointment and at least 7 years professional journalism experience in a major-market or national media organization or equivalent specialized experience.

Desired Qualifications

Experience reporting producing and editing written sports stories for national audiences

Experience leading managing and editing a team of journalists

Mentoring early-career journalists

Measurable success in engaging audiences around sports content

Experience teaching journalism or related topics at the university level

Experience developing and producing deeply reported enterprise journalism

Ability to create audio photo graphics interactives video and/or broadcast storytelling to complement written reporting

Demonstrated proficiency in new and emerging technology for reporting and storytelling

Mastery of AP Style