How does Sports Illustrated find its people?

The writers are obviously the high profile gigs at SI, but how do they go about getting editors (copy editiors and the higher-ups)? Is there a lot of working up the ranks for that, too, or do they bring in a lot of outside people. I'd be curious what the work-day was like for their desk people, too.

 

Not sure how they hire their editors and such, but I know it's a 4-day work week beginning on Thursday. It goes Thurs, Fri, Sun, Mon. Sunday and Monday can be pretty brutal, with editors staying til midnight and beyond. I think the magazine even has hotel roooms in NYC for editors who don't want to go all the way home on Sunday night just to come back a few hours later on Monday morning. But they do get Saturdays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays off.

 

This thread did a good job of quelling my thoughts of dashing off a cover letter and a resume just for the hell of it.

 

Yeah, the first two or three times you read him.

 

I've been a subscriber since 1997 or so and have yet to tire of them.
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But now that I think about it, that is a lot of weeks of puns.

 

Yi-Wyn Yen was the golf writer in Newark before joining SI (Golf Plus) as a reporter ...

 

not to knock the poster, or the writer mentioned in the opening post, but how is someone deemed a 'hotshot'?

are we pulling this out of thin air, is that your word, is this what people are saying about the guy?

 

He read about the writer in a blog.

 

If SI offers you a gig fresh outta college, you're a "hotshot."

 

From Wikipedia:

"[Markazi] wrote for basketball and hip hop magazines while he was in college, contributing to publications such as SLAM Magazine, XXL, King magazine, Rides and Tongue. He also wrote for the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News and Associated Press. He gained prominence, however, with a weekly column he wrote for the Daily Trojan, the school’s newspaper.

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While he was at USC, Markazi won many journalism awards, including the Scripps Howard Top Ten Scholarship, Freedom Forum-NCAA Sports Journalism Scholarship, Jim Murray Memorial Scholarship, Alan Malamud Memorial Scholarship, Lisa Davidson Memorial Scholarship and three Gold Circle Awards."

Seems like a hotshot to me. I didn't mean it as a dig - I could've said "college star" or something. instead of "college hotshot."

 

I'm pretty sure he put that on Wikipedia himself, since most 23-year-old sports journalists don't exactly have fans who have their entire resumes memorized. Having said that, Arash Markazi -- or "The rash" as some at SI.com refer to him -- is quickly becoming a jock-sniffer of Michael Silver-esque proportions.

 

Funny and probably true on the self-Wikipediaing. Regardless, there are links - he did indeed win those awards.

And Michael Silver is great. His "jock-sniffing" gets him places - and candor - few reporters get. His portraits of athletes in their personal environments, athletes who've let down their guards for a few moments, are always illuminating.