Copy editor, New Jersey

Wow, Sinking Ship, you're not just bitter, you're also quite dumb. If you couldn't see that Jay Ahr See's post was dripping with sarcasm, it explains a lot.

 

Here's a breakdown of the Trentonian's diverse 2007 daily newsroom, which includes news, sports and photography departments.

News: 10 full-time white males, 3 full-time white females, 1 full-time black male, 1 full-time black female, 1 white female intern

Sports: 9 full-time white males, 1 full-time white female, 2 part-time white males, 3 white male stringers, 1 white female intern.

Photography: 2 full-time white males, 1 part-time white female.

Excluding the interns, that's a total of 33 full-time employees, part-time employees and frequently-used stringers. 94 percent are white, 6 percent are black. 82 percent are men, 18 percent are women.

DeRienzo, who is also a white male, was not included in the 33 employees above. If he fills the three openings in the Trentonian's newsroom (editor, assistant sports editor, sports copy editor) with three more white males, the breakdown will be 34 White employees, 2 Black employees and 0 Hispanic, Asian, etc. That's 5.5 percent minorities. Dust off the shelf, because it looks like another diversity award for the Trentonian.

 

"Dumb" isn't the word that comes to mind with posts like this. You could make a comment without lowering yourself to such a level. Wouldn't that be nicer? You must be a JRC employee - that company makes you mean and nasty.

 

It's a fucked up ship, noooo doubt about it.

 

Holy shit! That's so funny and very true.

 

Big news about the Trenton ASE job: http://jrcbites.blogspot.com/

 

you don't even know where trenton is, dumbass.

 

Tom, you live in bumfuck Oklahoma. That pretty much sums you up.
I think its quite obvious that I know where Trenton is.

 

Since The Trentonian is a newspaper in the Journal Register chain, prospective employees there might want to get familiar with Matt DeRienzo, Corporate Director of News for Small Dailies and Non-Daily Publications at the Journal Register Company. Matt's an up-and-coming guy in the industry and an overall good guy. Undoubtably anyone applying for one of the three vacancies with the company--Managing Editor, Assistant Sports Editor, and Sports Copy Editor, probably want to familiarize themselves with this man.

To get to know Matt better, check out page two of this link for an interview with him last July:

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:blb-Ket029gJ:www.suburban-news.org/downloads/SubPub/july2006web.pdf+%22Matt+DeRienzo%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

For a more candid, off-the-record interview, read below:

Q: Who is Matt DeRienzo? Tell us about you.
A: A young lad from the New England area who is trying to get ahead in this world.

Q: How did you get into the newspaper business?
A: I was fresh out of college, didn't know what to do with my degree, wasn't qualified to do much, and got my start at a newspaper.

Q: What do you like most about the business?
A: $200,000 a year

Q: The least?
A: Having to ocassionally interact with people making $25,000 a year.

Q: When the well runs dry, how do you recharge the spark?
A: Make the remaining employees bring their own water and figure it out themselves.

Q: What do you know now that you wish you knew when you started in this business?
A: Never fill two positions when you can survive with one. For example, why have a sports editor when you already have an editor? Just hire an editor with a sports background and let him do both. Vice versa, too.

Q: The only thing I know for sure about the business of running newspapers is?
A: Actually, I really don't know anything. Keep in mind I've only worked for one weekly before. My plan is always to make conditions as miserable as possible, demand the impossible, and then flee the scene, hire an editor, and tell them to figure it out.

Q:Who/What is your major influence?
A: Theo Epstein.

Q: The world would be a better place if only people would...
A: Stop complaining about not getting raises for 15 years and just find a way to live off of the $26,873 we pay them annually.

Q: What 3 accomplishments are you most proud of?
A: 1) Reducing newsrooms by 367%. 2) Being able to repeatedly find 22-year-old college graduates who are thrilled to get a full-time job with benefits no matter how low the salary. 3) Being a father.

Q: None is better than I am when it comes to...
A: Reducing the sizes of a newsroom.

Q: I still can't get the hang of...
A: The newspaper business.

Q: If you could have dinner with anyone, living or dead, who would it be?
A: God, to know whether what I am doing is really OK.

Q: If you couldn't be a newspaperman, what would you be doing?
A: Cleaning gutters or shining shoes.

Q: What do you do for kick?
A: Write memos.

 

Trentonian minority numbers are a joke. For starters, unless you're including mailroom stuffers, some of whom who don't speak a word of English, hate gringos, visibly sweat anytime the phrase "visa status" pops up in conversation, but light up like Christmas trees when the words "queso" or "tortilla" is mentioned. The math is probably close to accurate if you calculate by tonnage of minorities. In that case, multiplying a certain night editor by 12 probably gets you that 28.3%

 

god damn, you are such an ignorant fuck. first, you say i've never been to jersey, now it's i live in oklahoma. why are you so ignorant? really? why do you say such stupid things? is it that you just have a lower IQ than anyone else on this board? is it that simple? there has to be an answer for your stupidity.

 

I do it because I know how fucked up you are and that you enjoy saying stupid things like your reply. I'm laughing at you Tom Petty. I'm laughing loudly.