Journal Register Company jobs in general (NOT the Trentonian)

Is it wrong that I have a weird desire to work for a JRC newspaper, just because?

 

Oh Lord...

 

Like an experiment, or some sort of game where only you know the joke.

 

I'll never forget getting an editorial bulletin from Ralph Ingersoll, the bastard father of JRC, reminding all us desk slaves that the three things readers always wanted more of in the paper were, and I quote, "tits, tots and torts."

 

Too bad the Trentonian has strayed from the "tits, tots and torts" theme. If you check out the news section, most of it is bland AP copy ... nothing exciting in the least. Yesterday they ran an AP Paris Hilton story on the front page ... yawn. Christ, there has gotta be SOMETHING interesting happening in the Mercer County region. Just send a reporter with a notebook and a tape recorder down Calhoun Street in Trenton and he's likely to find some kind of tabloid-worthy news story. And while many have applauded the defection of several veteran sports desk people in the last month, the new regime ain't much better - they ran the wrong Philadelphia Park entries on Tuesday. Guess good help has been hard to find for the new gung-ho sports editor. Or maybe he just wasn't around when that horse racing page was ready to be proofread. Tsk, tsk.

 

BTW, congratulations to a certain editor at a certain JRC paper who won the JRCbites "worst editor in the world" contest.

 

Very weird. Unless you're curious to see if they treat photographers better than writers and desk people.

 

I think it'd be like interactive theater. I'd do it just to see what I could stir up while I was there.

It's possible I have a really sick sense of humor.

 

If you want to work in a "sandwich market" 1 hour from NYC, 1 hour from Philly, 3.5 hours from DC, and don't mind doing desk work...
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/42925/

 

I think it was June 11 they returned to that theme for a day... front page headline "GIRLS LIKE PORN TOO" accompanied by a picture of three girls in bikinis at the Naked News auditions in Chicago.

 

All we need here is a dissertation on the overuse of a design-based approach in JRC newspapers.