Sports content coach, Gannett

From APSE twitter feed.
https://apsportseditors.com/gannett-seeks-a-sports-content-coach/

 

I'm puzzled as to why they would need a sports content coach when in large part, they don't allow the locals to actually do sports.

If one of our local Gannett outposts has anyone actually doing sports, it might be one or two articles a week.

 

This sounds like a nightmare job. Like coaching a DII women's soccer team bad.

 

From what I've been told, these Content Coaches have such a horrendously large stable of papers and writers they are working with, there's really no way to devote the time needed to help any of them. And at least some of those have absolutely no contact with the individual writers, instead dealing with the on-site coaches/editors at each particular site. I've heard tales of writers wanting to establish a line of communication and get to know their Content Coach, only to be told they are forbidden from contacting them.

Add in the lack of knowledge for most of these local markets, the prohibition of travel and expenses that many (most?) of these Content Coaches are having to lay down, as the go-between from the corporate overlords and the individual sites, and it's a job where you're basically unable to succeed.

 

A simple thing like putting together a daily newsletter looking at some of the output - highlighting what worked and what didn't, maybe having a "mailbag" - and sending it out to everyone wouldn't be a bad idea.

 

That's an expense, and expenses are verboten at Gannett ...

 

Love this word salad:

This position is remote and can be based anywhere in the US, except for Alaska and Hawaii or based at USA TODAY headquarters in McLean, Va.

So can you work out of USA TODAY HQ or not? I think the answer is yes, but I’m not sure.

 

It’s especially confusing because Gannett sold the headquarters building in McLean a few months ago.

 

Do they not have Internet in Alaska or Hawaii?

Although with what Gannett pays, you sure can’t afford to live either place.

 

The time zone difference would be a legitimate obstacle.

 

Not for the people in India doing McClatchy papers.

Then again, maybe working at 4 a.m. is how you get "Kalipari" headlines.