Sports Reporter, Duluth, Minn.

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/c/Foru...s-Reporter/-in-Duluth,MN?jid=946ebbcc628640e3

Do you enjoy a good U.P. threadjack? Having a boss who works #MACtion into every other conversation? Well, here's a chance to work for me (and other people) at the News Tribune in Duluth.

Seriously (or for those of you who don't frequent the Sports/News board), this is my shop and one of three reporters under me. We won Newspaper of the Year at this year's Minnesota Newspaper Assocation awards and the New York Times seems to be writing about the city twice a month. A long time ago, I found a great hire for a previous shop here, so I figured I'd bring it to the jobs board myself. I'm going to let the official language above speak for itself but a few quick questions you may have:

• The position is Guild-represented
• The weather in Duluth is, well, as advertised, but I can see a Great Lake from my apartment building, so there's that. The snow will be gone by the time you get here.
  
• Depending upon the strengths of the candidate, we may adjust beats, but the person who last held this position had the following primary responsibilities (the D-II [so, not hockey] teams at the University of Minnesota Duluth, which includes an annually competitive football team and is the only school in the country this year that reached the NCAA Elite Eight in men's and women's basketball [I just got back from the latter]; the Duluth Huskies summer collegiate wood bat baseball league team; a secondary role on preps that will likely include some state tournament trips; and first dibs on stories out of the local D-IIIs, the College of St. Scholastica and the University of Wisconsin-Superior). This is not an official timeline, but I'd really hope we'd have someone in place in time for Grandma's Marathon (Father's Day weekend), which is already sold out and one of the top marathons in the country.
  
• Duluth is two hours and change from the Twin Cities on one freeway (someone else will have to calculate distance to Tahoe)
• The executive editor is a former DNT sports editor, and the publisher is also a former sports editor.

I'd be happy to answer any simple questions via DMs but for more complicated stuff I may need to pass or defer to more official channels.

 

If you can handle winter - real winter - Duluth is a seriously underrated place to live.

 

The Class of 2023 at Journalism School X go over their job offers:

 

Come to Duluth. We're warmer than Yakutsk.

 

If I was younger, single, and not a parent, I'd be applying for this tonight.

 

Distance to Tahoe is 15 minutes.

Obviously.

 

Not to forget our morning TV pals.
Fly High Duluth - SNL - YouTube

 

That is a deep fucking cut. I thought I was the only one who ever saw that movie.

 

It was an HBO/Cinemax staple for a while back in the day. Guess parts of it stuck with me 30-plus years later.

 

Anything indoors that time of year I'm down with. Basketball, hockey or indoor athletics. The other 6 months sound freaking gorgeous.

 

Once experienced a 30-degree drop within about 5 minutes along Canal Park Drive.

 

Unless there's a blizzard ... then it might take 20 minutes ...