BBC Sport online is developing its coverage of boxing and mixed martial arts to take our online coverage of combat sports to another level. We have large numbers visiting for both of these sports already across our app, website and social media but want to do more to better serve audiences.

We want BBC Sport's output to reflect and understand the audiences we serve - for example, the different geographical regions of the UK and the experience of people from underrepresented groups (eg people from Black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds, people with lived experience of disability, individuals within the LGBTQ+ community and those from lower socio economic groups). We are therefore actively seeking individuals with skills or experience that can help contribute towards ensuring we maximise the diversity of our coverage and content.

Main Responsibilities
We are looking for freelance journalists to help write our popular live text commentaries on boxing and mixed martial arts, and freelancers to help with our news and feature coverage as well. Suitable candidates will have experience of either writing live text commentaries, news or features for websites. For our live texts, you'll be at home being knowledgeable, passionate and conversational to bring an event to life for our audiences. You'll also need to be fast, accurate and comfortable writing within BBC rules around impartiality and style.

Are you the right candidate?
As a freelancer you will work with our senior journalist for combat sports who commissions our digital coverage of both sports. We are looking to develop the breadth of our written boxing content away from the biggest fights, and in mixed martial arts, build more coverage to support our Bellator streaming and UFC radio rights.

BBC Sport is based in Salford but we'd welcome applications from across the UK.

This is not an entry level role, please review the criteria for the role before applying.

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