The Press-Telegram is on the lookout for an editor to replace John Futch, who leaves in August. JournalismJobs.com has the details.
The Press-Telegram, the newspaper of Long Beach (California) and surrounding areas, has a rare opening for an EDITOR for its award-winning newsroom. Our ideal candidate craves local news, thrives on deadline and relishes the challenge of converting a blank planning budget into a vibrant, reader-relevant daily report. Hands-on is a must as are solid organizational skills. So is a natural ability to communicate across functional departments -- from editors to sports to photo to online (and research, or advertising) -- and to coordinate with nine partner newspapers to reach more than 1.5 million readers in Southern California and a rapidly growing online/mobile market as well.
Direct reports must write for the web first, or perhaps mobile.The candidate should be unflappable, comfortable rallying a team, running day-to-day operations, launching the enterprise story, sports smart and know ins-and-outs of social media. We're looking for an exceptional planner and a gifted motivator, never shy about demanding accountability from among the staff. Someone who still passionately believes in newspapers, yet understands how to appeal to people whose lives are changing and a market that has seen dramatic changes in the past few years.You will identify and analyze new market readership opportunities and monitor trends that indicate the need for new strategies and initiatives. Show us that you're a natural leader, able to navigate an intense news day, concentrate on the reader first -- and still come out invigorated with a thousand ideas on how to make tomorrow's paper even better.
Candidates must have five years' editing/leadership experience. Interested? Send us a cover letter, a resume, three references and links to two deadline and one enterprise story within the last six months, describing how you were instrumental in making them come together. In Micro Soft Word format to: Publisher Linda Lindus at linda.lindus@presstelegram.com; Executive Editor Rich Archbold at rich.archbold@presstelegram.com.Open until filled.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Editor wanted
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And all this for the bargain price of...wait, don't answer yet, we have even more jobs to pack into this fabulous offer! For a limited time only.
"Micro Soft Word" is incorrect.
It's Microsoft Word.
" Someone who still passionately believes in newspapers, yet understands how to appeal to people whose lives are changing and a market that has seen dramatic changes.. "
Reporters share 5 year old keyless laptops ! I think there are 4 laptops for 14 reporters. I think the Photogs have not had an equipment update in 6 or 7 years! Way to change !!!
" and monitor trends that indicate the need for new strategies and initiatives. "
Oh the PT does a nice job on the Aging Expo !!
Anonymous @ June 13, 2010 10:58 PM,
I would suggest a Reporter without his/her own Laptop or a Photographer without his/her own Cameras, Lenses, etc. should be bagging groceries or washing cars rather than working in Journalism.
"I would suggest a Reporter without his/her own Laptop or a Photographer without his/her own Cameras, Lenses, etc. should be bagging groceries or washing cars rather than working in Journalism."
In that case, I would suggest that people with no newsroom experience shouldn't publicly excrete their opinions on how things ought to work, lest they sound stupid to those of us who know better.
...oh, too late.
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