Experienced Sports Editor wanted: Portsmouth (OH) Daily Times

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Company: Portsmouth Daily Times
Position: WANTED: Experienced sports editor
Location: Portsmouth, Ohio
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Not Specified
Ad Expires: September 28, 2008
Job ID: 968230


Description:
WANTED: Experienced sports editor. Must know Quark, photoshop, and be proficient in layout/design, producing special sections. Need community oriented journalist, and experienced staff leader. Position for self-starter on community newspaper stressing local sports, activities in Portsmouth, Ohio. Send resume to Art Kuhn, P.O. 581, Portsmouth, Ohio 45662, or email to akuhn@heartlandpublications.com

 

Wasn't this just posted a month or so ago?

I actually interviewed here once more than five years ago. They didn't want anyone writing columns (apparently someone before had written something about how Michigan was better than Ohio State and readers went ballistic).

Don't know if they still have that rule tho.

They did actually pay for a nights stay at the hotel, dinner and gas, which was kinda surprising for a small paper.

 

Open again....

http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=986038

Apparently I wasn't qualified enough... at 24... without a journalism degree.... and two years of college newspaper experience.

weird.

 

Don't be worried. Blessing in disguise.

 

Heartland. There's a dealbreaker right there. After their slash-and-burn routine throughout North Carolina - and their disgusting treatment of people in Mount Airy - forget this company.

 

Who owns these guys? What size paper and staff is it?

 

You can find the owners name in the post right above yours. The ad link three posts above yours also answers how big the staff is.

Paper isn't listed on the ABC site, but it's less than 25K.

 

Heartland? Never heard of them.

 

Circulation is a little less than 14,000 ... at last check. That's all I got.

 

As stated earlier, interviewed there a number of years ago, but it wasn't Heartland at the time.

The town is a dump, lots of vacant buildings. Portsmouth people go to Chillicothe to have fun and Chillicothe isn't exactly a booming metropolis.

 

Chillicothe has some cool old buildings or did when I was in the area last. Beyond that, there isn't much.

 

There's even less in Portsmouth.