Sports Journalist (Freelancer)

About Us

Deccan AI Experts is a pioneering AI company founded by IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad alumni, with a strong founding team from IITs, NITs, and BITS. We specialize in high-quality human-curated data, AI-first operations, and advanced AI evaluation systems.

About the Role

We are seeking a Sports Journalist (Freelancer) to support advanced AI evaluation initiatives focused on sports journalism, sports research, match reporting, editorial analysis, fact verification, and AI-generated sports content evaluation.

In this role, you will evaluate AI-generated sports articles, match reports, player profiles, tournament summaries, statistical analyses, live coverage content, and multimedia sports content. Your expertise will help improve AI systems designed for sports reporting, content generation, sports analytics, and editorial intelligence.

This position is ideal for professionals with experience in sports journalism, sports media, editorial writing, broadcasting, digital publishing, sports analysis, or sports communications.

Responsibilities

• Review AI-generated news articles, post-match analyses, previews, interviews, opinion pieces, and feature stories across multiple sports.
• Verify player statistics, team information, tournament results, historical records, rankings, schedules, and sports terminology using authoritative sources.
• Evaluate AI-generated sports summaries, commentary, headlines, and analytical reports for completeness, coherence, and journalistic standards.
• Identify factual inaccuracies, misleading claims, incorrect statistics, contextual errors, unsupported conclusions, and editorial inconsistencies.
• Provide structured feedback to improve AI performance in sports reporting, content generation, summarization, and editorial analysis.
• Review peer-developed deliverables to maintain quality and consistency standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Mass Communication, Sports Journalism, English, Media Studies, Communications, or a related field is preferred.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in sports journalism, sports reporting, editorial writing, sports media, broadcasting, or digital sports publishing.
• Writing and editing sports news, match reports, feature articles, and analytical content.
• Covering professional or amateur sporting events across one or more sports.
• Verifying player statistics, tournament records, rankings, schedules, and competition results.
• Reviewing AI-generated sports content for factual accuracy, editorial quality, and contextual relevance.
• Excellent analytical thinking, storytelling, and written English communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work with data-driven sports content.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with newspapers, sports websites, broadcasters, digital media organizations, sports federations, news agencies, or sports analytics companies.
• Expertise in one or more sports such as cricket, football, basketball, tennis, athletics, Formula 1, hockey, badminton, esports, or other major sporting disciplines.
• Familiarity with sports databases, live scoring platforms, performance analytics, and statistical reporting tools.
• Experience evaluating AI-generated news articles, match reports, commentary, sports summaries, or multimedia sports content.
• Experience in sports broadcasting, podcasting, video scripting, or social media sports coverage is an advantage.
• Knowledge of Generative AI, prompt engineering, RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback), AI benchmarking, or content evaluation workflows is a plus.

Why Join Us

• Competitive hourly pay: ₹1,500/hour
• Fully remote with flexible working hours.
• Opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge AI initiatives in sports media, journalism, and Generative AI.
• Exposure to advanced AI systems focused on sports reporting, statistical analysis, content generation, and editorial intelligence.
• Flexible project-based opportunities with global teams.
• Work on next-generation AI solutions supporting sports journalism, media organizations, and digital publishing.