USA Today reporter, editor jobs - NFL, NBA, MLB, college, etc.

There's a well-known NFL writer now working for a national website that on two or three separate instances accepted jobs and then never showed up. Great writer, great guy, but flaky as all hell, or at least he was early in his career.

I don't know what to say about Tyler. He's clearly a very talented writer, but I would have figured the JS wouldn't have been able to come close to paying him what I'm assuming USA Today was offering. Who the fuck knows? I wouldn't put it past Gannett to fuck someone over, but USA Today employees are usually treated better than other Gannett employees.

Crazy...

 

This is what I don't get... With the exception of some rumored columnists and a college football writer, USA Today got most of the writers it targeted... The NFL job has been an exception. I've heard names of about eight guys who have supposedly turned down or turned down the chance to interview for the USA Today job. Some of the names are among the top beat writers in the country, but some of the names that turned them down aren't the kind of people who you would think would turn this gig down...

Also, don't forget, they went after Tyler, not the other way around...

 

I'm the sports editor at the Journal Sentinel and will weigh in on this just briefly.

Tyler Dunne is a very talented sports journalist and a good guy. He realized almost as soon as he left how much he had loved the job covering the Packers for the Journal Sentinel, and we are thrilled to have him back. His colleagues on the beat, Bob McGinn and Tom Silverstein, are behind him 100%, too, and Tyler knows he will continue to learn a ton working with two of the best NFL reporters in the business.

Tyler is young. The appeal of USA Today coming after him and the promise of big growth there was hard to resist. I'm sure he learned from the process.

Some of the condemnation of him here by people who don't know him and don't know all of the circumstances is beyond me.

 

I'm just impressed there are enough quality landing places remaining in newspapers for a careerist to keep hopping.

It's not a condemnation to note that dude likes to jump around seeking the next opportunity. Might wanna check his Twitter bio too:

https://twitter.com/TyDunne

Better keep a copy of that job announcement ready to go.

I don't think the opinions of most here should matter. He's obviously doing well for himself. Whether the denizens here think he's a "child" is irrelevant.

 

Thank for weighing in, Mr. Davis. But you haven't done him any favors in his career.

He might have made a bad decision again. But calling him anything less than a flake is just not accurate. He worked, what, three weeks at USA Today?

He's young and needed some good advice. And, in my opinion that advice should have been to stand by his commitment. Many of us have accepted jobs that we weren't crazy about. You grit your teeth for a year-and-a-half, do the best job you can and then try to find something new.

I'm sure you were happy to have him back. He is talented and you don't have to train somebody new. But you should have been the one telling him what is best for him ... and that's not necessarily what is best for the J-S.

I'm sure this will all blow over in a couple years. People have short memories. But as I said before I would never consider hiring a kid that I knew might quit three weeks into the job, and had done so twice before, both times with your help. I might be the only one who feels that way.

My advice to Dunn is to find a new mentor.

 

OMG! He hasn't updated his Twitter bio in the last eight hours!

 

It's a really difficult thing to do. He may have feared injury.

 

SAVE TYLER DUNNE!

 

I just want one great job in my lifetime. One. I've even prayed for it, and I only go to church when Jesus is born or rises from the grave. This guy has had more great jobs in two years than I could even hope for in a career. I'm happy when I even get an interview somewhere decent. I hope he is at least cognizant of reality. More than anything, that's what I really wish. That he's aware of these blessings. Because this ain't the way it works for the rest of us.

 

Regarding burning a sports editor who is an APSE officer: Believe me, most sports editors don't even know who is who among APSE officers. And if they do, they're not necessarily giving them any more credence that other sports editors. And don't forget, several of the most frequently condemned sports editors on this board were APSE officers in the last five years or so.

 

It's time to stop calling Dunne a kid.

He's held several big-boy jobs, and he's had the guts/balls/gall to make adult decisions to leave a couple more of them before he'd even settled in.

CarlSpackler nailed it.

The problem isn't even so much that Dunne has quickly left jobs with which he either wasn't happy or for which he belatedly decided he wasn't suited; there's something to be said for being able to stand up and do what's best, for yourself, and, in the long run, for the organization and editors you "victimize."

It's just that he's had so many opportunities to even be in position to make such decisions, and that he keeps getting them, seemingly without any consequences or backlash beyond the disbelieving scoldings and shaking of heads here.

Would that everyone could be so lucky.