Sports Editor -- The (Starkville, Miss.) Daily Times Leader

The Daily Times Leader, a daily Horizon Publications newspaper, is seeking a sports editor with the vision, skill, passion to help make our great sports coverage even better. The Daily Times circulates throughout Clay County, a place where high school football is practically a religion. That passion spills over into each community’s other prep sports, making for a primed readership that is always hungry for local sports coverage. In addition to prep sports, we cover Mississippi State University and other SEC schools. The Sports Editor responsibilities include covering area sporting events, writing headlines and cutlines, compiling round-ups as well as covering area high school sporting events We are seeking someone with appropriate experience. Salary and benefits are competitive. Paid vacation, sick leave, mileage and 401K available. Please send a resume, clips and/or tearsheets to Don Norman, Publisher, Starkville Daily News. P.O. Box 1068, Starkville, Ms. 39760, or e-mail: sdnpub@bellsouth.net or fax (662)324-8092

Per: http://www.alabamapress.org/apa/index.cfm?fuseaction=npJobList&id=2

 

This is for Starkville's sister paper in West Point. Don't expect to be immersed in MSU coverage.

 

Yeah the ad does seem a little bit misleading.

 

There are worse places in the world to cover high school football --- West Point has won back-to-back 5A state championships --- but yeah, I wouldn't even bother unless you're a recent college grad looking to get a foot in the door in the business.

 

"In addition to prep sports, we cover Mississippi State University and other SEC schools."

No, you don't. I second the notion that this would be a good job for a recent graduate. But don't be fooled by this ad. ... Did I mention that West Point is a terrible town?

 

Friend of mine had a kickass wedding reception in an old movie theatre downtown. That appeared to be the only redeeming quality.

 

You have to rope in those needing a job somehow. It doesn't seem the town itself is good enough to get good candidates.

 

The Publisher is tighter than Bill Bidwell.

 

There is no MSU coverage here -- only West Point High, Oak Hill and Hebron Christian. And don't look to make more than $22k. You've been warned.

 

It's a small town for sure, but West Point has a pretty sizeable Ole Miss faction living there.
This job will involve heavy coverage of OHA (Oak Hill Academy) which popped up once desegregation came into being around 1970. That school was one of the 30 percent of academies in Mississippi that were formed 40 years ago in Mississippi and stood the test of time to make it into the new millennium, operating now as viable education outlets in towns that have a white populous that's not happy with public education.

A lot of the paper's advertisers likely have kids in or are supporters of OHA.

 

I've done a radio broadcast in Starkville one time for an Arkansas/MSU game and it was without question the worst college town I've ever been to. Is West Point that much worse?

 

Downtown Starkville, like many small Southern towns, is actually very nice.

West Point? Meh. OK, I guess.