U of Florida beat writer, Tampa Tribune

I'm your Huckleberry, and that's just my game.

 

According to the Danville thread, Media General has a company-wide hiring freeze. I assume that means this won't be filled, right?

 

I think that's a weather report ... the whole East and Southeast is under a country-wide freeze. Right? Or is Buckeye killing me some more??

 

While that may be the case, this has to get filled. The UF beat is too important to the Trib for it to be filled permanently by a correspondent.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if the mothership gets special dispensation on this one.

 

The hiring freeze means they can't hire from outside. If they can't, they'll promote from within, cut back from their (large) preps staff. They won't have a correspondent traveling for men's basketball games too long, I'd think ...

 

MG tends to look the other way when one of its flagship publications needs to fill a position. The Tampa Tribune is the newspaper with MG's largest circulation figure, so anyone will get an exception - fair or not - it would be Tampa.

 

I might be drifting too far off topic, but does this make it any more likely Richmond goes in house to fill the SE spot?

 

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. That's how Mike Harris ended up the SE, and he's spoken highly of at least one of the other editors that would be in line for the spot should RTD keep the search in house.

 

Also keep in mind, however, that Mike wasn't hired for SEVERAL months after he'd been doing it on an interim (read: free) basis. And also several months after they'd brought in numerous people for interviews.

They will drag this out as long as they possibly can.

 

I'm pulling for Steve Trosky to get the job in Richmond, so going in house would be good in this case. But like IJAG said, MG's been known to let somebody do the work for months before actually giving the promotion.

 

SOP for MG. Draaaagggg it out, save money, use lots of "interim" titles.