Sports Editor, Petersburg, VA

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Company: The Progress-Index
Position: Sports Editor
Location: Petersburg, Virginia
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Negotiable
Ad Expires: March 23, 2007
Job ID: 739546


Description:
We’re looking for a strong leader to manage a team of reporters and correspondents responsible for covering local sports, including a college, other youth sports and a major NASCAR venue. The sports editor supervises two other full-time sports reporters; and writes, edits and paginates stories. We are looking for a leader that can help take the sports section, and the newspaper, to the next level for content, design and multi-media. This position requires a person who can communicate well, train and coach reporters, edit copy and produce attractive pages on deadline. The ability to make sound decisions quickly is also important. The sports editor is also a key managment player on the news team. Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and three years on a daily newspaper. Knowledge of InDesign and Photoshop a plus. The Progress-Index, with 14,000 circulation daily and Sunday, is a p.m. paper Monday through Friday and an a.m. on the weekends. The Progress-Index offers a competititive compensation and benefits package. Petersburg is a historic town with a growing, vibrant arts community. We are two hours from the beaches and mountains and 2 1/2 hours from Washington, D.C. Send resume and cover letter, plus work samples to: Brian J. Couturier, Managing Editor, The Progress-Index, 15 Franklin St., Petersburg, VA 23803; or bcouturier@progress-index.com. No phone calls please.

 

And to answer a question I'm sure will come up.




There is a Golden Skillet in Petersburg! ;D

 

Seriously though. I notice it's a Times-Shamrock chain paper. Is it a good shop and is it in a good chain?

 

The Meatline (which is just so wrong I'm never going to type it again) indicates he'll be heading to Bloomsburg, Penn. He should do well there.

PM me for any details.

 

I might be able to lend some insight into the position, too. Maybe.

 

My understanding is that he's down in Wakefield at the Virginia Diner enjoying the lunch special (ham).

 

The fried chicken and onion rings at the Va. Diner are some kind of good.

 

And the peanut pie is worth the drive on its own (think pecan pie ... but with peanuts).

 

Petersburg is a good, decent small-size paper...but the town is freaking horrendous. You'll be living in Short Pump (hehe), Chester or Richmond. I interviewed there about 18 months ago and was told that it's definitely not a place you want to walk around at night.

 

Chester's probably the best place to live -- northern fringe of the circulation area, less than 20 minutes from Richmond. Colonial Heights is okay if you ever wondered how a Southern Baptist Lake Wobegon would be like. Petersburg actually has okay pockets, but where it's not okay, it's REALLY not okay. If you live in Richmond you're probably about 30-40 minutes away from the office.