Beware, Trentonian offering jobs that don't exist

I guess the desk stepped it up too much and the mistake slipped through. Like PHINJ said, there's no way in a million years George O'Gorman makes that mistake.

Rumor was that Aaron left Camden because he wanted to write more and figured the SE job would give him that opportunity.

 

Next time this job opens I'm taking it.

 

Why don't you take the ASE gig then?

Getting the coach's name wrong is pretty bad when you consider this is by far the biggest package in the paper; it'd be like the Indianapolis Star calling the head coach of the Colts Tony Dorsett.

But it's not really fair to focus on a single mistake in the big picture. If the plan is to pump up high school girls basketball coverage, mission accomplished. There's a shitton of coverage in the Trentonian. So, good job on that.

The bigger problem is as Van Gogh points out: How is he going to escape Jelenic's wrath, improve the paper and the performance of the overworked desk if he's not in the office?

 

I'm a No. 1 guy from this point in my career forward. I'd like to lead the Army of workers, enhance morale, get everyone on the same page, come up with ideas for better coverage, improve the existing coverage, plan. Maybe go out and take photos. Do the occasional column or story. I've been the soldier for the better part of 15 years; done my tours of duty; covered games bloody galore.

 

Well, Songbird, if form holds, you won't have to wait long. You might want to send in your stuff.

I don't think covering the "big" game (note the quotation marks) was such a smart move for ol' Driving Range Bracy. He's going to look like he's more interested in writing than editing, which is what he was hired to do, and he might have caught the mistake in the story posted above if he were on the desk. You don't make a bad section better by commandeering the writing load, too.

(By the way, I'm writing this stuff because you just know they're reading it in the office.)

 

I just post here so I can get a part in the TV show.


This thread is sorta like reality TV for journalists.

 

Trentonian is Business of Year

The Trentonian, a JRC daily in Trenton, N.J., will be honored as “Distinguished Corporation of the Year” at the Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 2006 Hall of Fame award dinner March 21 at the Hyatt in Princeton.

“We’re particularly excited about this year’s recipients, who we feel truly represent the electricity of Mercer County’s dynamic business climate,” said Donald J. Loff, chairman of MRCC’s board.

Each year, the Chamber selects a person and two companies - distinguished corporation and top small business - it believes best embody the practice of “corporate social responsibility,” the concept of combining social values into how everyday business is conducted. Both Jeff Pearlman, co-chairman of the Hall of Fame event, and Michele Siekerka, chamber president/CEO, spoke of the newspaper’s work recognizing local businesses and helping the nonprofit community.

Bill Murray, publisher of The Trentonian, said the award is special to the newspaper’s staff because it strives hard to help provide a face for the business community and help all institutions in the area and individual causes.

“It is our employees who make the difference. I am happy on behalf of The Trentonian employees, its readers and its advertisers to accept this award,” Murray said.

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For more info on that award Wonderlic posted:
http://www.mercerchamber.org/events/hallOfFameDinner.asp

http://www.mercerchamber.org/index.asp

 

JRC's concept of "social responsibility":

 

I have some updated information on current events at The Trentonian. First on the television volume. New sports editor Aaron Bracy is allowing the TV volume to be on at a low level but he was mad that the FOX television show American Idol was on one night. He told employees that the American Idol show was too distracting and it was the reason for mistakes in the newspaper. He said sports games were not distracting.

To add to the step-it-up story that has been mentioned on this thread before, Aaron also has proposed to certain employee(s) that maybe they should consider finding a new job.

High School baseball is the most important High School sport of the Spring season for The Trentonian. Aaron recently-----and proudly----- made the decision and announcement that the new "beat" writer for this sport is a freelancer ($35 per story) who is only allowed in the new budget to write a few stories per week. This freelancer will also be expected to keep complete (as in every player in the main conference) statistics and create weekly team rankings without extra payment.

Deadlines at The Trentonian are 11:15 p.m., 12:45 a.m. and 1:50 a.m. Since Aaron began his new job the earliest the sports section has been finished for the first edition is 12:25 a.m. because he is scheduling few people on the desk and more people-----including himself-----to write stories. The average finish time for first edition is about 12:50 a.m. and has been as late as 1:20 a.m. Aaron walks out of The Trentonian building at 11:00 p.m. sharp no matter how many pages are still incomplete or need to be proofed. Acting editor Matt DeRienzo issued an order that all sports section pages must be thoroughly proofed and initialled by three different copy editors meaning even more work for less people.

 

Holy mother o'pearl.

I've been turning out pages for 20 years and I could count on one hand (maybe two) the number of times I've been more than an hour late on section deadline.

 

Starman certainly is not my SE. My SE has been an hour past deadline at least a dozen times in the past year, and he only does layout about twice a month. That's about 50% of the time for the math challenged here. Sounds like he'd fit right in at the Trentonian.