Sports Writer, Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.)

Company: Centre Daily Times
Position: Seeking Sports Writer in Happy Valley
Location: State College, Pennsylvania
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: $25,000 to $30,000
Ad Expires: July 28, 2008
Job ID: 444534
Website: http://www.centredaily.com

Description: SPORTS WRITER

The Centre Daily Times, owned by The McClatchy Company and located in State College, PA (circulation 24,274 daily, 31,394 Sun) seeks a versatile individual who is capable of paginating pages using Quark on Thursday, covering a high school football game on Friday and writing a Penn State football sidebar on Saturday. If you are capable of handling a wide variety of responsibilities at an advanced level, we'd like to hear from you.

Requirements include a bachelor's degree in journalism, two years of professional experience covering various sports, and a solid working knowledge of Quark and Photoshop.

The CDT offers a full range of employee benefits for full-time employees, including health, dental, vision, life, long-term disability, dependent life and long-term care insurances; 401(k) and pension; company stock purchase plan; tax-free flexible spending account for health or dependent care; vacation time, holidays and other paid time off.

State College, home of Penn State University, is located in the beautiful, mountainous area of Central Pennsylvania.

Interested applicants should send a resume, cover letter and non-returnable clips to:

Walt Moody Centre Daily Times 3400 East College Avenue State College, PA 16801 Email: wmoody@centredaily.com

The Centre Daily Times is an Equal Opportunity and Drug-free Workplace Employer.

http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=444534
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This was a good paper with a few good eggs the last time I saw it. I'm not sure who left or even who's still there. I'd put good money that management isn't expanding the sports staff, though.

They cover all of Centre County -- five high schools, Penn State, State College Spikes (Single-A, Pirates), some Altoona Curve (Double-A, Pirates), I believe -- and do a pretty good job of it. There's decent football, very competitive baseball on two levels and excellent wrestling.

 

Given all the layoffs by McClatchy, how secure is this job?

 

It seems they're looking to fill this position every year.

 

With all the layoffs couldn't they give this to someone who lost a job at another paper? Or is that too logical?

 

It IS possible someone from another MC paper will get this, but it has/might have to be posted externally.

 

I'm not sure anybody with a job will/should be applying for this one. Anybody employed should be smart enough to stay away from McClatchy.

Not bad for somebody out of college, though.

 

Ron Bracken, the longtime SE and football writer, is retiring. Appears that Walt has been moved up to SE, and they'll be replacing Bracken with a writer.

 

So if the paper is going to hire within, is it even worth sending stuff in??

 

Is Gordon Brunskill still at the CDT?

 

Last I knew, he was.

 

My understanding was that they're promoting from within to fill their sports editor position, thus creating the sports writer opening that prompted this thread. So, yeah, send in your stuff.

 

Anyone heard anything on this one?