SE, Faribault, Minn.

http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=845141

Sounds like a one-man shop. Only thing I know about Fairbault is that Shattuck-St. Mary's, the prep hockey factory, is located there.

 

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Not to be a jerk, Zeke, but you should know the proper spelling of Faribault. (It gets me every time.)

 

Re: SE, Fairbault, Minn.

I guess I should, but clearly I don't.

I will go to the box, two minutes, and feel shame.

 

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It's not a bad place to work. Cover a lot of preps, and you hear about it if you miss a game or two. It's actually a two-man show. SE and one full-time writer. It's owned by small company based in Michigan. The same company owns a few other papers in the area, some daily and some weekly or bi-weekly.

The town is kind of a craphole. Failing industry, shoddy downtown, all that. But downtown Minneapolis is only about 45 minutes away, and the southern suburbs are only 20, so you don't have to live in Faribault to work there. In addition to the main public HS, there is a small private school, Shattuck, and a deaf academy.

 

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Any opportunities to cover stuff in Minneapolis?

 

Re: SE, Fairbault, Minn.

Good info, Sconnie.

I can vouch that there are much nicer places in the area to live than Faribault.

 

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Ummm, the only thing in the Cities you would cover is high school events played there. Unless someone from a local high school makes it big, and then you might get to cover a pro game if that guy is in town. That's about it. They don't beat cover, or occasionally cover, the pro teams at all.

 

At the time this job was posted, it was weird because Faribault had an SE that had been there a while...it turns out there were filling the job before they fired the guy. Pretty much a bullshit move.

Not sure if they actually have anyone in mind, but its safe to say the ME in Fairbo is hated by many people now. The former SE was with the company a decade plus until today

 

Didn't the SE at the time kind of see the writing on the wall and/or start sniffing around to see what was going on?

Who owns this paper?

 

Huckle Publishing, if this is to be believed:
http://www.powerreporting.com/knight/mn_faribault_daily_news.html