Sports Editor, Carlisle, Pa.

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Job Description:

The award-winning Sentinel of Carlisle, Pa., (circ. 15,000) has an opening for a sports editor who's ready to step in and lead our team of full- and part-time reporters and correspondents.

We cover 15 high schools and three local colleges ' Shippensburg University, Dickinson College and Messiah College ' plus local auto racing and youth sports. And in a highly competitive market, we want to keep readers coming to us first in print and online for local sports news and features.

This position requires a supervisor who can make sound decisions quickly, communicate well, train and coach reporters, edit copy and produce attractive pages on deadline using InDesign. The sports editor is also a key player on the news team responsible for developing strategy and content for our Web site. Experience with InDesign or similar a desktop publishing software is required.

Applicants must have, as a minimum, a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, three years on a daily newspaper of general circulation and management experience.

The Sentinel is an a.m. paper seven days a week.

Carlisle is close enough to Baltimore, Philly and D.C. for day trips and down the road from Harrisburg, the state capital. New York City and Pittsburgh are just a few more hours away. The position offers an excellent compensation and benefits package, plus opportunities for advancement.

 

Did this SE get the job in Harrisburg by any chance?

 

No way. They had one who left in December and the gentleman they hired was there for a couple of weeks and then took a better paying gig at a different paper in PA...and by better paying gig, I mean substantially better paying, for less work (he was hired as a writer).

PM me if you want details on this place. It's a former stomping ground of mine.

 

Home of Jeff Lebo. (Who? Exactly. Is it possible to know too much about Carolina basketball?)

 

also Billy Owens or is he from Altoona?

 

Billy is from Carlisle. Danny Fortson had a cup of coffee in Altoona

 

Former (and maybe again soon?) home of Redskins training camp.

 

Redskins camps were fun when they were in Carlisle.

 

Allllllrighty then.

 

that is the rumor that SKins camp is coming back. The Skins actually called Dickinson (not the other way around) about returning.

 

Word is that the former SE left to go back to school (another sports writer leaving the biz to pursue other things? I'm shocked). And like someone mentioned above, apparently they brought a guy in who quit after a week or so. Great area for prep sports.

 

Yes, the one who was there for about two years left to go back to school and the gentleman they hired was there all of three weeks and took a much better paying job.

As far as the preps, there's a couple of consistent football contenders, including Cumberland Valley who went to the West final in football, basketball is up and down sometimes, but again there's a couple of regulars who contend and the teams like Red Land, Mechanicsburg, Trinity, who compete in the Keystone are good and that is fun to be around, Carlisle also has a rich bball history.

Wrestling is good, track and field is usually very competitive.

Messiah college fields good teams but this place only cherry picks stories and they do not cover the "three local colleges" as much as the ad seems to lead on that they do. They are very behind in covering those colleges.

Again, PM me if you need some details, lay of the land.