Sports Editor -- Jackson, MS (Clarion-Ledger)

Lots of guesses, and they're all low. It'd be at least somewhere in the 50s.

 

You confident in that statement?

 

Very low for what actual pay will be.

 

I'll just leave this on the Courier-Journal here: With more staff cuts and a newsroom reorganization driven by market research, has The Courier-Journal lost its way? - Insider Louisville

 

I have no information about pay for the sports editor's job in Jackson. But a friend of mine at a major metro (considerably larger than Jackson, in an area with a considerably higher cost of living) that is looking for a sports editor said his paper hired its business editor last year for a bit less than $60K (the job paid $90K back in the day). He also said the paper intends to stick to that pay scale if it decides on an outside hire as the sports editor.

 

A Gannet shop, Bronco?

I can't speak for Gannet but I did go from one paper to another within the same company several years back, doing essentially the same job (just switched from news to sports) and my pay went up about 10-12%. (it also happened right as gas prices started falling, so it was like a double raise!)

 

What a great read. Insider Louisville undressed and flogged Gannett and the C-J in public.
It probably won't change anything, but it's good to get these stories out there for readers to see.

 

Not a Gannett paper, but its cost-cutting tactics and newsroom structure are quite similar. The only things it doesn't have -- yet -- that these Gannett papers have are crazy beats and job descriptions.

 

Just by the law of averages, Gannett comes up with so many new ideas that one of them is bound to be good eventually, right?
Or will they just hit on it, then move on to some other harebrained scheme six months later?

 

A former colleague left a pretty decent gig a few months ago to join one of these Newsrooms of the Future -- not Nashville, not Jackson -- and just quit this past week. "The worst experience of my professional life," he said.

 

I got a cold-call email from Gannett last week recruiting me to be content coach at one of its mid-level papers. I didn't know whether to laugh or scream, so I melted down my laptop in the oven and then had the oven thrown into the river.

The gushy come-on was nauseating:

I found your profile on Linkedin today, and I wanted to reach out to you about a new leadership position we have in Blahhville, USA. We’re calling it a content coach – the title is part of our new “Newsroom of the Future” reorganization process, but it’s really the No. 2 position in the newsroom – essentially the managing editor.

... ... ...

If you have any interest in this new role, or know of someone who might be, I would be most thrilled to discuss it with you. Let me know if you have questions or if there’s a good time for us to talk.

I look forward to hearing from you.
With kindest regards,

Mary Jane RottenCrotch
Corporate Talent Acquisition

 

I think I knew her, before I joined the Marines and went to the 'Nam.