Sports copy editor, Louisville Courier-Journal

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The Courier-Journal, a 180,000-circulation newspaper in Louisville,
Ky., has an opening for a veteran copy editor on its sports desk.
Page-layout experience preferred, but not essential. Position requires
night and weekend work. E-mail cover letter and resume to sports
editor Harry Bryan at hbryan@courier-journal.com.

 

Anyone know if the opening here and those in Phoenix are related to Big G's new universal page design hubs?

 

Didn't Louisville recently hire a desk guy?

 

Is this a copy editing job on a true sports desk, or on a universal desk with primarily sports duties, or what?

From what I understand, all or nearly all Gannett properties are going to be enduring widespread layoffs among the copy editing ranks within the next 2 years, as a result of the page design hubs. No one has been told for sure when these cuts are coming and how deep they will be at each location.

That's something to keep in mind when these openings come up, that they could be just temporary jobs, unless they've been told they won't have any cuts by Gannett (which then goes into the issue of trust, etc.), or that sports won't be part of the design hub that sparks these staff reductions.

It also could be why there seem to be several copy editing jobs opening on here at Gannett properties lately, with current copy editors leaving like rats fleeing a sinking ship and papers needing to fill the desks and get the paper out every day until the Grim Reaper shows up.

 

As Paul Barrett wrote in the Arizona Republic thread, the design centers won't handle copy editing.