Elizabeth City, N.C. reporter

Company: The Daily Advance
Position:Sports Reporter
Location:Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: $25,000 to $30,000
Ad Expires: March 19, 2007
Job ID: 713595
Website: http://dailyadvance.com

Description:
We're looking for a sports reporter to cover community sports from small college, high schools and recreation to hunting fishing and boating in this scenic area Northeastern North Carolina. Successful candidates will have a college degree and some experience in sports reporting. Contact The Editor, The Daily Advance, P.O. Box 588, Elizabeth City, N.C. 27907-0588. By email, send resume and cover letter to: mgoodman@coxnc.com. We're a Cox Newspaper offering competitive pay and benefits.

 

I love that area.... Although I'm assuming it has to be a little pricey to live there.

Outer Banks. ... Mmmmmm.....

 

Elizabeth City is reasonably close to the Outer Banks, but the two aren't much alike. Elizabeth City is on the Pasquatank River, about 45 minutes inland. They don't cover the OBX, unless they've changed their coverage area since the time I interviewed there some six years ago. They have a new facility on said river. Dreary area, though, a lot of farming and light industrial type jobs. If I had to guess, it's closer to 25 than 30, given that it's the No. 2 job of a two-person department at a paper getting periously close to dipping under 10K circulation.

Coverage area includes something like seven or eight high schools, a D-II school (Elizabeth City State) that doesn't do much nationally and fishing.

Hampton Roads area is a pretty close drive -- you'd get most of their radio and TV stations -- so at least there's options for things to do.

 

I thought they were picking up in circulation meat. What happened?

 

It's possible they're back up a bit, or at least leveling off, but I check the ABC audit results for all the papers for which I worked or interviewed, just to see how they're doing, and I know they dropped from 13-ish when I interviewed to a touch over 10 now. They're not in a high-growth sector, so any significant improvement is either going to come from expansion of the coverage area (which won't help but so much, because NE N.C. is pretty sparsely populated outside the beaches in summer) or better penetration in their core.


Current ABC numbers:
ADVANCE, ELIZABETH CITY (PASQUOTANK CO.) SUN DLY 10,217
ADVANCE, ELIZABETH CITY (PASQUOTANK CO.) E (M-SAT) DLY 10,359

 

Interviewed here very early on. Had to take an interesting writing test...

Not much going on in E-City, but Hampton/Norfolk/Va. Beach is close.

And oh yeah -- there is a Bo Jangles in E-City. Not every shop can claim that.

 

First of all, it's one word, Bojangles (Just messing with ya, no disrespect giantjay25). Second, they're almost everywhere in North Carolina.

Plus, what kind of writing test? More copy editing or theory-based? Anyway, I just want to know.

 

Bet EC has a Hardees, too.

 

Hypothetical game situation, imaginary athletes, made-up quotes. Construct as story in a specific amount of time that's a certain length.

By the way, Hardees rocks.

 

Any chance of parlaying this into a gig somewhere bigger with Cox? (OK, AJC).

 

From what little I understand, I think the Carolina Cox properties (E. City, Rocky Mount, Greenville) are sort of an island unto themselves). I don't remember hearing about any big moves from NC to Atlanta or Austin.

 

I don't hear that Cox does much to move up its own. Mike Goodman is good people, but be ready to feel a little isolated. Except for Norfolk/Hampton Roads up north, there's very, very little around Elizabeth City and Pasquotank County.