Sports Editor- Newport, OR

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Company: Newport News Times
Position:
Sports Editor
Location:
Newport, Oregon
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Negotiable
Website: http://www.newportnewstimes.com

Description:

Experienced self-starter to take care of our sports section in our area, where outdoor activities (hunting, fishing, kayaking, hiking and more) are as vital to readers as high school and other sports. Photography skills a must. Page layout and design abilities preferred. Send cover letter, resume, and samples of published writing and photos to Jamie Rand, publisher@newportnewstimes.com, or 831 NE Avery, Newport, OR 97365.



General Expectations include but are not limited to the following:

Contact all coaches and players in a professional manner
Attend as many games as possible
Stories need to be written and edited by deadline
Need to work as both an individual in the sports editor role while also being able to work as part of the editorial team
Be willing to take suggestions regarding the vision for sports section
Make yourself a trusted member of the lincounty sports community
Include every school in the paper every week
At least 1 feature story each week
Rotate main feature from school to school
Outdoors information – fish reports, fish of the week
Offseason content – sporting events, outdoor features, coaches features
Athlete of the week
Previews in friday’s paper
Roundups in wednesday’s paper
Lots of photos and faces

 

I assume not costing anyone a scholarship is an unspoken job responsibility.

 

Just reading the way this is worded, its "talk down" nature of the phrasing, makes me think this would not be a very good place to work.

 

Reposted on JJobs.com
http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=1212769

Company: Newport News Times
Position:
Sports Editor
Location:
Newport, Oregon
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Negotiable
Website: http://www.newportnewstimes.com

Description:

Experienced self-starter to take care of our sports section in our area, where outdoor activities (hunting, fishing, kayaking, hiking and more) are as vital to readers as high school and other sports. Photography skills a must. Page layout and design abilities preferred.

General Expectations include but are not limited to the following:

Contact all coaches and players in a professional manner
Attend as many games as possible
Stories need to be written and edited by deadline
Need to work as both an individual in the sports editor role while also being able to work as part of the editorial team
Be willing to take suggestions regarding the vision for sports section
Make yourself a trusted member of the lincounty sports community
Include every school in the paper every week
At least 1 feature story each week
Rotate main feature from school to school
Outdoors information – fish reports, fish of the week
Offseason content – sporting events, outdoor features, coaches features
Athlete of the week
Previews in friday’s paper
Roundups in wednesday’s paper
Lots of photos and faces.

Email publisher@newportnewstimes.com

 

Translation: Someone without a wife or kids, or a life, who will work 24/7 for low pay.

 

Former co-worker and good friend of mine had the gig for about a year. I'd say your translation is pretty damn close. Oh, and he commented how it was always cold and windy being that it's on the coast. It would probably be nice this summer since non-coastal Oregon has seen so many 90+ degree days.

 

Found myself in what I'm pretty sure was Seaside, Oregon, around this time last year. Further up the coast, but probably not that different. Remember that this was late August: It was so foggy and misty by the ocean that you couldn't see the water until you were almost in it.