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The American Press, an award-winning newspaper in Lake Charles, La., is seeking a multi-media sports reporter to cover McNeese State University athletics as well as being responsible for related content that drives audience growth on social media. McNeese is a NCAA Division I/FCS school with a...

I have a book idea. Several people have told me it is a good book idea. Good enough to speak of it vaguely so no one who is better connected takes it and runs with it. But as the tired maxim states, ideas are like assholes: everyone's got 'em. Or maybe that was excuses. At any rate, what I don't...

New York Times NBA writer -- pardon me, N.B.A. writer -- Howard Beck is leaving for Bleacher Report. https://twitter.com/HowardBeckNYT/status/380426917687853056 On the surface it feels a bit like Shelley Long deciding to leave Cheers for a promising career in cinema, but I guess the times...

I have a question -- is there a demarkation point where prospective employers see "experience" as "damaged goods?" I've noticed more and more as of late that jobs I have applied for are being filled by recent graduates. Ironically, these are exactly the kind of jobs I was applying for when I...

Surprised that I didn't see anything yet on this column, so here it is. Getting a lot of buzz on Twitter. Thoughts, people? It gets worse from there, and I have absolutely no use for tattoos myself...

Can you write about shirt? Lots of shirt? Then this may be the gig you've been looking for! It's really shirtty! http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=1443281 Description: ICIS is looking for a reporter to add to our growing team in Houston. ICIS is the world’s largest...

Perhaps the most annoying aspect of this business, other than never getting a raise in four years, having my gas mileage reimbursement rate cut nearly in half and my health insurance costs increased by a month's rent per year, is the difficulty moving forward. Job rejections typically come with...

If anyone needs a stringer with plenty of college baseball coverage experience for this weekend's LSU-Stony Brook Super Regional, please send me a personal message and we'll take it from there.

Uhh, not sure if this is a journalism topic or an anything goes or a new category which has yet to be invented. Anyway, I will be covering the Final Four this weekend, though with a slight catch. Since the deadline for getting credentials came well before my company approved paying for me to...

It's summer, and there ain't sh*t goin' on. However, there is a racetrack in our area that seems like it could prove for fertile feature ground. (We just really don't pay much attention to it). My question to anyone who might have experience covering the sport is "What is a good topic for a...

Promising young National League ballclub looking for a go-getter who can keep team above .500. Perks include a schedule that features several games with the New York Mets and Florida Marlins, and getting to watch the President Races every home game. 3-5 years experience preferred, but not...

The following conversations just took place in my newsroom. In my left ear, a guy was on one phone asking "How many innings did you play?" In my right ear, another guy was on the phone asking "How many errors did Northwest have?" The final scores of those respective games were 26-1 and 33-0...

Surprised that no one has posted this yet, and I'm not sure if it's news or a journalism topic. Perhaps someone else had the same dilemma and suffered an aneurysm rendering them unable to start the thread. http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/playoffs/2010/news/story?id=5198646 Anyhow, what's...

The story about now-ousted Mets player personnel guy Tony Berzanard keeps getting better. Omar Minaya is apparently implying that NY Daily News beat guy Adam Rubin wrote the initial stories about Berzanard's Hulk-smash clubhouse outburst in Binghampton so he could get Berzanard's job...

Two or three years ago, I used to come to this site all the time. Heck, even last year. Multiple times a day. Now, I might log on twice a month. The reason? Because every time I come onto the site, it gets more depressing than the last time. Reading these stories about all the papers shuttering...

Company: Star Beacon Position:Seeking sports writer Location:Ashtabula, Ohio Job Status: Full-time Salary: $25,000 to $30,000 Ad Expires: June 12, 2008 Job ID: 730547 Website: http://www.starbeacon.com Description: We have an immediate opening and are in search of a person with varied...

Former NFL lineman Alonzo Spellman has lost his marbles once again... what a troubled life. http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080129_1__Aform32254

Hopefully this is more effective than an internet personals ad. Anyhow, if you can't cover your team when it plays in the Chicago area (against DePaul, the Chicago Wolves, etc.) I can do it -- at least in the month of February. Clips and resume available upon request.

I love this craft. I despise the people who run the industry -- yeah, no real revelation there. But the hatred is strong enough to look at the viability of purely doing freelance work in a major market. So my question to you more experienced vets, what kind of money can be made with such a gig...

So a place flies me in for an interview. But instead of calling me to let me know I didn't get the job, they do so via e-mail. When you are one of only three or so finalists, I think that at least the courtesy should be extended to let them know in a more personal manner. But I could be wrong...