Reporter (Rutgers)

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Sounds like a good job, especially with an AD so supportive of
the media.
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/posts/3755362/

 

Is someone leaving or are they expanding after the layoffs that followed an expansion?

 

I do not understand letting quality writers go (as the Star-Ledger has) and then posting a comparable opening like this.

 

My guess is they'd rehire someone who was recently laid off.

 

My HOPE is they'd rehire someone who was recently laid off.

 

Didn't they advertise a Rutgers reporter opening pretty recently, like within the last year?

 

Yes, for NJ.com. I'm not sure whether it was filled. However, I've heard some people who applied for that opening have received direct e-mails from HR reps at Advance Media about the new posting.

Advance is supposedly consolidating all coverage from the newspapers and websites under a single umbrella, and a lot of people are going to lose their jobs as of Sept. 1. I believe at least one of the Rutgers writers has already left, not sure how many there were across the multiple papers and platforms.

It's intriguing how the ad focuses on the website and barely mentions the paper. It makes me wonder what might be coming next.

 

Anyone hear about this one?

 

FWIW, it was still listed on their site as recently as Saturday.

 

No one was laid off from this particular position. Star-Ledger lifer Tom Luicci was the Rutgers beat writer for the past 13 years, until early April, when he went to work FOR Rutgers -- in a newly created digital media/PR position inside the athletic department:

http://mycj.co/1uiclO6

He said the SL, as it geared up for the layoffs, made him "a fair offer" to stay.

 

Any updates? Anyone hear anything?