Sports copy editor/designer, Antelope Valley Press (Palmdale, Calif.)

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Company: Antelope Valley Press
Position: Sports Desk
Location: Palmdale, California
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Negotiable
Ad Expires: April 5, 2012
Job ID: 1326923
Website: http://www.avpress.com

Description:

The Antelope Valley Press is seeking a top-notch sports desk person for its award-winning section. We’re located in a hot-bed of sports in Southern California and we offer our readers an excellent mix of national, college, high school and community sports. We have a robust section and want a person who loves to make pages jump out at our readers. We are looking for a person with excellent Indesign skills who likes nothing better than to produce a quality headline or a quick information breakout. Photoshop skills required along with excellent copy editing ability. This is not a reporting position, although the successful candidate will take and write results as needed. We are located in a highly affordable area of Los Angeles County with access to Southern California attractions and offer a good benefits package. Job requires night work and will fill promptly with right candidate. Apply with cover letter, resume, and work samples to personnel@avpress.com.

 

I'm guessing the AVP eventually found an SE?

 

If you like all the crime of an urban area, with the all-hope-is-lost feeling of a rural area, the Antelope Valley is for you.

 

And you get a nice dose of afternoon dust storms for your trouble.

 

Jay Heater is the SE, formerly of Contra Costa Times fame. From what I've read here he's got a pretty good rep.

Stopped there once on the drive to a desert outpost. Town itself felt less than safe, but far less Podunk than many places that make the rounds here.

 

I applied there three years ago and visited for a couple of days. Lancaster and Palmdale butt up to each other at a population of about 150k each. Nice minor-league ballyard for the High-A Lancaster JetHawks of the California League, big-ass mall. You're only an hour or so away from that shithole known as Hollywood if you want to go night-lifeing (if ESPN can make up words, so can I) in L.A. Even better, you're an hour AWAY from L.A.

There were crime stories in the AVP issues I checked out (usual Cali smut: gangs, drugs, good old-fashioned street violence), but I liked the place. Nothing there that I considered to be too out of hand. Then again, I was born in Stockton.