Sports editor, Ketchikan, Alaska

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Company: Ketchikan Daily News
Position:
Sports editor
Location:
Ketchikan, Alaska
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Not Specified
Ad Expires:
February 18, 2008
Job ID: 873008

Description:
Sports editor in one-person department of family-owned newspaper. Cover high school, middle school and community basketball, baseball, football, soccer, volleyball, wrestling, cross country, track etc. in a small community with an outdoors lifestyle in the Tongass National Forest. Journalism degree or sports reporting experience required. Benefits: paid vacation, profit sharing, 401k, paid holidays, medical and dental insurance, sick leave. Send resume, clips and cover letter to: Tena Williams, Co-Publisher, Ketchikan Daily News, P.O. Box 7900, Ketchikan, Alaska, 99901. tenaw@aptalaska.net.

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Wow. No road access. That'd be an experience, I'd imagine.

 

I'm not in sports, but to me this still sounds like a dream job.

Where does it say no road access?

 

Ketchikan would be a fun post for a season. I doubt you get to travel with the teams much. The good thing is - you won't be putting a lot of miles on your car.

 

I looked it up on a map. It's on an island in southeast Alaska. Even the airport would require a ferry, it looks like. I had never realized there were so many communities that could only be accessed by boat or airplane. I also never realized Alaska's capital was one of them.

 

Ketchikan: Would-be home of the Bridge to Nowhere. Average temperature: 45 degrees. More than 20 hours of daylight in June and July.

All that, AND middle-school volleyball.

 

Sign me up!

 

I'm part of (I think) 2 members of AK-SJ. I don't work in Ketchikan, and have never been, so I can't tell you much. You'd cover the King Salmon, who are 3A (small schools) in football 4A (largest classification) in basketball. I've heard the area is absolutely beautiful, but I can't tell you myself.
They probably aren't going to fly you out to look at the place (my paper didn't either, just too much $$) so you'll have to be ready to go sight-unseen.
If anyone has any general Alaska questions, I might be able to help.

Edit: with correct classification info.

 

If you are given a notice at 8 p.m. eastern on the first day of the month, that a poll is due on the fourth of the month at noon Eastern, how late are you now?

 

Only about 4 hours.

 

Read a fascinating story about Alaska high school football last year, think it was the NYT. There's a LOT of air travel involved for road games in many parts of the state.