News Reporter, Santa Barbara News Press

Maybe this will be moved since it isn't a sports opening, but how can this ad say all of this with a straight face while it continues to deal with the obvious issues. :-\

Company: Santa Barbara News-Press
Position: Reporter
Location: Santa Barbara, California
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Not Specified
Ad Expires: June 6, 2007
Job ID: 659184


Description:
The Santa Barbara News-Press, an award-winning 41,000-circulation daily on the beautiful South Coast, seeks multi-talented Reporters with a flair for clear, concise, colorful writing and a passion for pounding the pavement for stories. The right candidates will have the ability to give our Web site a boost by helping create the kind of interactive content that will have readers wanting to come back for more and check out our print edition. A bachelor's degree in journalism or a communications field is required. The News-Press offers competitive salary and excellent benefits package. To apply, please send your resume, cover letter and clips to: The Santa Barbara News-Press, P.O. Box 1359, Santa Barbara, CA. 93102-1359 Attn: Human Resources or e-mail apodaca@newspress.com

 

This job will not end well for whomever takes it.

 

Run.

 

i love her chili, though, buck.

 

Ask for a guaranteed, up front $100,000 ... and it might be worth your time.
Once, the SBNP was an outstanding newspaper with a great sports staff.
John Nadel of the AP in Los Angeles worked there, along with several other very talented people.
You won't make it there for anything less than $45K. Housing is beyond belief.
Handle with care.

 

just a small nit to pick, since we have to do it all the time with one of our columnists

It's "in addition to myriad other problems" not "the myriad of"

/picking of nits

 

Don't you have a bike to ride or something?

 

30 miles yesterday, actually. It's raining today, so I'll just do an afternoon swim of 1,000 meters at the pool.

I've got to wonder, though. If you're just a worker bee trying to cut his/her teeth and exist in the background without getting too involved with the ugliness in the rest of the newsroom, how tough would it be to take a job at this paper for a year or two to get experience and then try to move on?

 

I would rather clean the booth at an adult book store than work at that place.

 

For $45K you're still living in Oxnard. In the bad part.

I heard they're down to two city-side reporters. There was a time (actually, up until about a year ago) when I'd have given anything to work there. Now, not so much.

 

Crazy Wendy bullshit... for some reason, I love that line...

 

Maybe if Jerry Roberts wins his suit and wins the paper back it might be a cool place to work, but that crap they pulled with the computer porn was disgusting. Just think, with that job, you too could be bullied into cobbling together a b.s. story defaming someone, but at least you wouldn't have to put your byline on it. That paper is the worst piece of crap since the SF Chron and Examiner went on strike and put out a scab rag for a few weeks with fake bylines.