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Clarion-Ledger Ole Miss beat

Discussion in 'Journalism Jobs' started by RustyHampton, Jun 15, 2011.

  1. Drip

    Drip Active Member

    Ross, I believe is moving from the Jackson State beat, which would mean that there are two beats open. This will be interesting.
     
  2. TGO157

    TGO157 Active Member

    I don't think this is new as the JSU beat was mentioned in the job ad.
     
  3. dkphxf

    dkphxf Member

    Unless Ross isn't going to the Ole Miss beat.
     
  4. Blitz

    Blitz Active Member

    It's a huge red flag for the industry and the direction we see things heading when so many formerly important staffers are whittled off the teams at these various papers. Lee Baker used to write small colleges and jr. colleges stuff at the C-L and his beat was well followed. It added charm to that paper. Bill Spencer's byline was a mainstay on those prep pages and he may have gone to the layout/production side on his own, but the spots in the high school section have decreased for sure over the past decade or two as the Internet has slowly tightened its grip. The aforementioned Christiansen was a fine writer there and it just seems like papers are still trying to cover the same broad expanses with far fewer writers.
    My friends down on the Mississippi Coast are down to three writers, but still hoping to cover all the state colleges/2 junior colleges and 22 prep schools with about 7 sports played at each one.
    You can't do it and the quest now is to establish the exact role of newspapers in this technological.
    I envision the newspapers soon going to 80 percent features stuff and capsulated results entries except for chosen weekly focus points, which will vary through the season and wind up including everyone by year's end.
    These staffs can't cover all this stufff anymore to the extent that they used to.
    Can't do it.
     
  5. Bamadog

    Bamadog Well-Known Member

    The Sun-Herald situation is utterly preposterous. They don't even have a true sports editor and canned their two best writers, Saints writer Larry Holder and columnist Jim Mashek, in a round of brain-dead budget cuts. Now they will be overstretched preps, USM and not much else. What's the point of picking up that section any more with no SEC (Mashek) or Saints (Holder)? Quick answer, there isn't any. I mourn for the future. It is a pretty bleak one.
     
  6. BrianGriffin

    BrianGriffin Active Member

    Has Mashek landed on his feet? I see where Holder's doing work for CBS and has his radio show at least.
     
  7. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Mash, who posts here regularly, has started his own website/blog and is trying to cultivate a career as a super-stringer, covering college sports, the Saints, etc.

    http://www.jimmashek.com/
     
  8. RustyHampton

    RustyHampton Member

    To clarify this situation, again. We have one opening right now, for the Ole Miss beat or JSU beat. Ross has not left the JSU beat. We do not have 2 openings. The original post was probably a bit misleading in that I said we had 2 potential openings for Ole Miss and JSU. We have one potential opening, but we're not sure if it is for the Ole Miss or JSU beat.
     
  9. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Bloomington's Hugh Kellenberger has apparently taken the job:

    http://blogs.heraldtimesonline.com/iusp/?p=14898&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
     
  10. Blitz

    Blitz Active Member

    I haven't seen a byline from this new writer yet. Is he on-site and/or did he accept the job?
     
  11. RustyHampton

    RustyHampton Member

    Hugh was hired 2 weeks ago. He is scheduled to start writing later this week.
     
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