Sports Editor, Hattiesburg, Miss.

Heard about this opening last week, thought some in the SportsJournalists.com community might be interested. Found this ad on the Mississippi Press Association website.

Category Editorial
Job Title Sports Editor
Job Description


The Hattiesburg American seeks a sports editor to plan and oversee sports
coverage for print and online.

The sports editor oversees a staff of four reporters with priority coverage
including the University of Southern Mississippi athletics and prep sports.
The editor will encourage traditional sports coverage, non-traditional
storytelling and the development of stories with broad appeal for the Sports
section and A1.

The sports editor position requires a minimum of 5-10 years of professional
journalism experience, a bachelor¹s degree and managerial experience.

Position requires proven ability to lead, motivate and inspire a newsroom
operation that values teamwork. Must have demonstrated understanding of and
ability to execute digital/online strategies. Must exhibit solid news
judgment, a strong sense of fairness and high ethical standards. Position
requires proven ability to innovate and find solutions to challenging
problems. Must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Must
have excellent organizational, time-management and decision-making skills,
flexibility and proven ability to work in a fast-paced, high-volume,
deadline-oriented, rapidly-changing environment.

Send resumes to Managing Editor Erin Kosnac at
ejkosnac@hattiesburgamerican.com.

 

A friend of mine mentioned that he might apply for this job.
It's perilous, it would seem, as papers continue to do things like we saw last weekin Mobile/New Orleans and with that chain.
Who knows when Hattiesburg might decide to go all-web with its product?

 

That seems to be the case with ANY paper these days.

 

Hell, Hattiesburg could start shipping daily papers TO Mobile and New Orleans.

 

The Clarion-Ledger prints their paper now and they've dropped circulation pretty badly in recent years. They're down in the 15,000-12,000 circulation class right now, which is pretty bad considering Forrest County (which contains Hattiesburg) has 74,000 people and it's a growing area after Katrina.

If you're ever in town, the new Mugshots (the original conveniently burned down when they were building the shiny new one out by the new movie theater) is the place to go for a hamburger. Living there is pretty inexpensive too and it's a college town, so not a bad place to be a single guy.

 

Albert, Bama, any idea what Tim Doherty is up to these days? IIRC, he was working news side at the American following the C-L departure. Tim is good people.

 

Doherty's still doing news at the American.

BTW, not sure what this job pays, but I'd guess it's in the mid-to-upper 30s. That's not bad considering the relatively low cost of living, and as Blitz indicated, the scenery is, um, nice.

 

Mid- to upper-30s? For a sports editor at a 26,000 daily? Hell, I was making THAT much as the second guy on the desk in Tupelo seven years ago. That's ridiculous.

 

It's not that much anymore. They're in our circulation class for awards and they're not even that high.

 

Everyone's circulation numbers have dropped in the last 5 years.

 

Unfortunately, you're right. Ours have too. It's a race to the bottom and I don't want to find out what the prize is when we get there.

 

Not ... everywhere. Not even everywhere in Mississippi.