Sports designer, Fort Myers, Fla.

is this place gannett or mclatchy (formerly knight ridder)? i always get all those papers in florida confused?

 

Gannett

 

He actually got a job with CBS Sportsline.

And our next designer will not be writing Bowling Green columns.

 

The job is now officially able to be posted.

We are looking for a page designer/copy editor for our sports section. The person will need to be able to design section fronts, special sections -- Spring training, football, high school all-area teams, Super Bowl, etc... -- and grind out some inside pages on deadline. We also need someone who can read copy, catch and fix mistakes, and write headlines.

There will be no writing. Please do not see this as a way in that will eventually lead to a writing position. We would like someone dedicated to elevating the design and content of our section. We have enough writers to cover what we need.

A little about us. We're a 100,000-daily paper. We've won APSE Top 10 daily 4 of the last 5 years. We cover the Tampa Bay Bucs and Miami Hurricanes with staff writers. We have a college jumping to Division I next year - Florida Gulf Coast University. And we cover 30-plus high schools. If you have any other questions, feel free to e-mail me. I'll tell it like it is. I am the assistant sports editor.

Please send your resumes and portfolios to:
Mark Bickel
Sports Editor
The News-Press
2442 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Fort Myers, FL 33901

 

Just once, I'd like to see a sports editor stress that a sports writing position should not be viewed as a foot in the door to become a copy editor or page designer so don't even try it.

 

The last 2 times we've had positions for designers, we were flooded with applications from writers who would design for a while and would like to eventually get back into writing. I was simply trying to be honest about what the situation is going to be and not blow smoke about, well, if you come in and do a good job, maybe you can write X and Y. If there were a chance, I would have said that too.

 

Thanks for the post Ed. My buddy says you are good people.

 

As a former News-Press alum (and there are PLENTY of us here/there/everywhere) I have fond things to say about this joint. Plenty of fine people to work with, and though I don't know Ed and Mark, they have good reputations.

For anyone who might end up going there for a job interview and has some time to kill between the hours of midnight-whenever, may I suggest Gator Lanes for a beer/10. Tell Kevin I said hi ...

rb

 

I'd like to see an ad that doesn't just tack on catching mistakes and writing headlines as an afterthought.

But I'll settle in for a long wait.

 

I'd like to read posts about a job opening without Dyepack, who obviously has a lot of free time between his coverage of junior high basketball games, making some annoying comment when he has shown he offers very little to the discussion about a particular paper.

But I'll settle in for a long wait.

 

Buck, you got that right. And to thank that someone else gave that clown a job.

 

I hope the folks over CBSsportsline.com read that, and I hope the seemingly good folks at the News Press read that before he quit and before they gave him a good recommendation.