Sports Designer/Copy Editor at the Orlando Sentinel

The Orlando Sentinel has an immediate opening for a designer/copy editor on its award-winning sports desk. We seek a motivated, multi-tasking self-starter who is proficient at editing copy AND capable of producing eye-catching pages in an intense, deadline environment.

Internet experience is a plus. Nights and weekends are a given.

The successful candidate will have at least five years experience on a sports copy desk, show strong organizational skills and work well with a team of like-minded professionals.

You will edit copy, design pages and contribute to the Web site as we blaze a trail to the new frontier of newspapers and sports journalism.

Please send your resume and clips to:

Matt Humphrey
Assistant Sports Editor
Orlando Sentinel
633 North Orange Ave.
P.O. Box 2833
Orlando, FL 32802

mhumphrey@orlandosentinel.com

 

I guess it's good news when anyone is hiring, but how can this be possible?

20% of the newsroom gets gutted . . . and now an opening needs to be filled?

If I'm one of those 20 percent, I'm feeling even more bitter.

 

Several friends have mentioned internal hiring memos for positions needed to be filled. I think it's typical considering all the larger salaries dumped that can be replaced with cheaper/less-experienced labor.
Unfortunately, it's just the nature of things.

 

Matt Humphrey is awesome.

 

Yeah I must say, I would be very bitter if I had just lost my job there.

Sadly, this is where the trend is going- hire someone in for less- even though journalists make crap to begin with.

 

Each succeeding newspaper generation, and in this environment that could mean each 18 months, will pay its workers comparatively less. It's only a matter of relatively few years that this will not be seen as even a potential middle-class career arc.

 

Why keep someone in a job when you can lay them off and hire someone new for out of school for half the price? Got to keep that 15 percent profit margin somehow.

 

Fixed.

 

Once upon a time, papers this size didn't have positions that did editing and design.

 

Unfortunately, that time is long gone. Say hello to the new title of reporter/copy editor/designer/desk clerk/photographer. The bright spot is you're paid less.

 

Nothing like getting paid a shitty salary for doing 6 jobs. Exactly why the hell I got outta dodge with this business.

 

I have sent off resume and clips for this job a and am waiting for a call back. To tell you the truth, the salary I was quoted when I inquired about the job through email was about 15k more than I make now at a 80k-100k circulation paper. I know that may not seem like much, but for me, it is. I guess if I get an interview, I check it out and see if it is worth it to move.