Sports Editor, Bloomsburg, PA

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Company: Press Enterprise
Position: Lead Award-Winning Sports Department
Location: Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Negotiable
Ad Expires: January 18, 2007
Job ID: 325700
Website: http://pressenterpriseonline.com


Description:
The Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg PA seeks editor with strong background in news or sports to lead a sports section twice honored by Associated Press Sports Editors as one of the 10 best in the nation under 40,000 (2003 and 2006). We are a 21,500, seven-day AM, recognized as one of the best small papers in Pennsylvania. We consider strong sports coverage integral to our success. We offer a salary that goes far in our relatively low-cost corner of eastern Pennsylvania, just two hours from Philly, three from NY. Rush cover letter, resume, writing and layout samples to:

Jim Sachetti Editor Press Enterprise 3185 Lackawanna Ave. Bloomsburg, PA 17815 sachetti@pressenterprise.net

 

Didn't this position get filled in the summer after Matt Traub left?
Bloomsburg, like all of the Northeastern PA area, is a great place for the "right" person.

 

bump

 

One of our teams traveled to Southern Columbia, a football powerhouse that's won five straight PIAA Class A titles, late in the season.

If I recall correctly, the school has reached the championship game seemingly every year since the mid-1990s. Simply incredible stuff.

As for the Press Enterprise, I was pretty impressed. Nice layout, solid writing, not to mention a well put together weekly prep football tab.

 

And it's award-winning. Not many papers can say that.

 

And they've got some decent, non-BS folks running the show. Not many papers can say that.

 

Said it the last time this was open, will say it again -- this is a pretty decent gig. Nice town, good preps, very good DII football (and field hockey if you are sadistic). The editor there is a very good guy and the paper is strong for its size (even if they are partial to pictures of folks on the front porch of their double-wides as front page art).

 

Hey, when 80 percent of the population lives in double-wides ...

You're also within shouting distance of Pocono Raceway, if you'd like the opportunity to cover auto racing.

 

They have a stringer who covers Pocono for them. However, there's good local copy if Jimmy Spencer comes back since he's from Berwick.

 

i am posting because i heard through the grape vine that jim sachetti is considering a guy for the job that i use to work with. jim for your sake please look into his background.

 

Couldn't you just have e-mailed Jim instead of ripping this guy you use to work with on a very public message board?

 

It's not but so bad. Only guyty and Jim know who this guy might be. If Jim brings him on, no one on staff would know if this was the person guyty is talking about.
So, no one will know for sure but wow, guyty, no matter who takes over there, they will get looks from the staff wondering 'Is it him?' Didn't out the guy, but torpedoed anyone who takes this gig (as long as the staff is on the board).