Beware, Trentonian offering jobs that don't exist

I wonder how much of this stuff on Bracy is BS.
First of all, no one in a sports department even would watch AI for more than 30 seconds, unless it's the season finale. (Heck, the women-laden news side doesn't even watch it.) Talk about vacating your man card.
Second, I've never heard of three people proofing an ROP page. Maybe a section front, but never an inside page.
Third, if The Trentonian has plenty of writers and few desk people, as some claim, why would they be having a stringer be the main high school baseball guy?
I'm not saying that this all ain't true. I don't know whether this information from Bedwetter is second-, third-, sixth- or ninth-hand. And I'm not saying he's full of shit. But it stinks.

 

I'm still waiting for them to fix a few minor things on the story I submitted to them, which went on their Web site recently.

 

1. At one shop they watched American Idol in the newsroom like it was a presidental assassination or a declaration of war. Whatever floats your boat, I was busy trying to download porn onto the SE's computer.

2. At one shop they had three people proof all pages. That took a lot of getting used to. But they had a clean product, so there you go.

3. I have no idea about the baseball guy. Maybe he's being brought in to do the stats and is getting paid via writing stories, because they don't have a mechanism for paying for stats? Search me.

 

I thought all papers proofed all pages to make sure there are no headline or cutline errors. Or bad breaks - my paper has outsourced its pagination and printing and thanks to checking proofs of inside pages we've caught several instances of the paginator cutting a story in the middle of a sentence. Heck, we've caught mistakes on the agate page thanks to proofs.

There's one guy in my department who's a huge AI fan. The rest of us tell him he's nuts. He counters with the 50 million (60 million, whatever it is) viewers the show has. But he'd never watch it in the office.

If its the stringer I think it is, it would be because said stringer is on good terms with many of the coaches in the paper's coverage area.

What's an ROP page?

Don't know how true the parts about blown deadlines and him leaving before first edition is off are. Guess we'll have to wait for one of the Trentonian employees (or another person with Trentonian contacts) to post confirmation on that.

 

No offense, but could Moddy or somebody move this to the Journalism topics board? 21 pages for a paper whose position has already been filled seems a bit much, no? Especially when this thread has morphed from speculation on a job into what exactly is wrong with JRC and the fine paper that is the Trentonian?

 

All papers proof all pages, but it's usually just one person doing the deed, not three.

And ROP = run-of-paper.

 

It serves as essentially a sticky-note warning against anyone taking a job here (or for that matter, with ANY JRC paper).

The way JRC is slashing payrolls chainwide these days (dozens of editorial layoffs in the last week or so), it's a very good question as to whether ANY job they might advertise actually does exist. For that matter, and I certainly don't feel like wading through 22 pages to find out, but I don't think there was ever any definitive answer that the job listed in the original posting does in fact exist.

Here's something new: The Publisher Shuffle.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/070319/1434012.html?.v=1

 

I'm against moving it as well. After all, The Trentonian just advertised an ASE position less than a week ago. This thread is still more than relevant.

 

I'm still getting over the $35 payment. Leave the house at 3, get there by 3:30, game starts at 4 and ends at 6-6:30, get some quotes, go to the office and write it by 8-8:30, home by 9. That's less than $6 an hour. You could do better at McDonald's.

 

I want small fries and a Big Mac.

 

You want small fries, not a small order of fries? That's odd.

 

Shit, I thought the going rate for a stringer story was $50...at least that's what it is in South Louisiana and South Mississippi. Thirty-five bucks is an insult.