Sports editor -- Los Angeles Times

I'd agree. Usually these jobs have never opened up in the past. Promote from within. Now they're advertising. I'm seeing a lot of jobs come open on Tribune Publishing's website.

 

I hope TJ Simers applies, just for the sake of entertainment value.

 

the part about the guy 35 miles to the south: Is that serious or an in joke?

 

Serious. And it wasn't referring to Simers, who, fortunately, is a distant memory in the newspaper game.

 

This news, I'd imagine, might affect the process here:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/262279/former-suitor-for-l-a-times-becomes-publisher-and-ceo/#.U-ktGxJ4IxQ.twitter

 

I've never heard of a big city SE (No. 1 in charge) who regularly works nights and weekends.

 

Maybe not all night or all weekends by any means, but sports editors at the l.a. times, hartford courant, miami herald, chicago tribune, boston globe et al sure worked their share, especially back in the day.

 

I know of at least two qualified candidates who don't plan to apply because of all the uncertainty with Tribune Publishing in general and LAT management/resources in particular. And the retirement was not a long-held secret in the department.

 

I know I won't be applying for the job. But then again, y'all don't know me so why should you care.

 

If you wanted to be the sports editor of a large, elite, or at least once-elite, major-metro newspaper, why would that matter?

Particularly nowadays, when you know there are major resource issues almost everywhere, and you're staying and working at the paper/in the business anyway?

Unless you really think the ship is in imminent danger of truly sinking, why wouldn't you at least apply? It's not as if such positions are a dime a dozen.