Danville (Va.) seeking sports copy editor/page designer

Danville sports section varies between 3-7 pages. most of the time we average 4-5 a day. Reidsville/Eden are usually 2 pages each, but is 3 on Sundays. (But this hire is not expected to do all of those pages; he/she will share design duties with another Danville staffer. There will also be spot writing, including high school football)

Kick, I do not expect any section chops in the near future. However, I do know that we will be going to a 44-inch web within a year or so.

For what it's worth, this job is about as secure as you can find these days (if there is such a thing anymore). Danville has already gone through losses of vacant positions/non-newsroom cuts. MG is scheduled to cut a lot of jobs later this year, but I'm told that will mostly hit the MG metros, not us (I don't know for sure, just speculation).

 

Great news!!! :-\ :'(

 

Drew, hold the job open. I may need it.

 

Moddy, they publicly announced a month or so ago they were going to cut jobs by October (I'm pretty sure there was an AP story). I guess I should say that speculation is that those will come at the larger papers, but no one knows for sure. But obviously there is always more fat to trim at bigger papers rather than smaller ones. :-\

 

Moddy, you are probably more in the know than I am. I was going by this...

"Of those job cuts, 745 are expected to come from newspapers and other publications, 45 from broadcast, and 20 from corporate staff departments. The company will increase jobs at its Interactive Media division by 60, Morton said."

From:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003807158