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Reds Beat Reporter | Cincinnati Enquirer

Discussion in 'Journalism Jobs' started by zhbuchanan, Jan 10, 2018.

  1. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Joining The Athletic.
     
  2. ss90

    ss90 Member

    One of six new hires. Congrats to him, the site, and national baseball fans.
     
  3. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Agreed on all counts.
     
  4. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Just for clarity's sake: Everyone who's in a position of authority has had to kiss ass at some point. Those who stubbornly refuse to kiss ass are the 30-year-olds at the drive-through window. Don't wear it as a badge of courage. You do what you gotta do.
     
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  5. ss90

    ss90 Member

    I viewed puckering up as pathetic. But I stood by it then and I do now, whether I was right or wrong (probably wrong since I'm out of the industry now).
     
  6. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Speak for yourself.
    A workplace brown-noser, and we've all seen them in action, is usually insecure about the quality of his or her work.
    We have seen in our government how pathetic, and how ultimately destructive, the use of flattery is as a tool for self-promotion.
    When the good employees leave because of such horseshit, and the suck-up is forced to take up the work that has been foisted on other people because of the tactics used, the suck-up will either improve or show who they really are (usually an undertalented employee).
    Your advice to younger journalists is garbage once again.
     
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  7. ss90

    ss90 Member

    I don't know that this is fair. This is an industry that a long time ago decided to forgo merit-based decisions. Blame the game, not the players.
     
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  8. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Before its demise, this industry was full of people at high positions whose talent, ability, intelligence, maturity, demeanor, and so on and so forth, did not command those stations.
    Nobody was forced to make Lynn Hoppes an ME 15 years after his being hired as a page designer.
    Or giving Jemele Hill column inches barely out of college.
     
  9. BaseballGuy1

    BaseballGuy1 New Member

    Any updates on this position? No longer posted on Gannett's website.
     
  10. BaseballGuy1

    BaseballGuy1 New Member

    They filled the position.
     
  11. ss90

    ss90 Member

    Respect how fast they got it done. But, spring training is right around the corner.
     
  12. wheels89

    wheels89 Active Member

    John Fay, who covered the Reds for the Enquirer for many years before taking the buyout in 2015, is coming back.
     
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