Sports Reporter- Vernal, Utah

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Company: Vernal Express
Position:
Utah weekly seeks sports reporter
Location:
Vernal, Utah
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Not Specified
Ad Expires:
October 29, 2013
Job ID: 1531119
Website: http://vernal.com

Description:

Community weekly in mountainous Utah seeks sports reporter to cover area high school, youth and club sports, outdoors and more.

The Vernal Express is looking for someone who lives, eats and breathes community sports. The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree in journalism or communications-related field or equivalent experience, be a strong writer and proficient with a digital camera, social media and have experience with Photoshop and InDesign pagination software. The ideal candidate must have a love for community journalism.

The position will mainly cover high school, middle school, youth and outdoor sports, as well as general assignment coverage and design work on pagination days. Some feature and general news assignments may be needed during the sports off-seasons. Though a weekly paper, we strive to continuously update our website and social media sites with the latest news and sports.

Vernal is in northeastern Utah, in a fast-growing community about 160 miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah and about 140 miles northwest from Grand Junction, Colo. Utah boasts many gorgeous natural areas and National Parks.

The Express offers its employees a competitive salary and benefits.

Interested candidates can send a cover letter, resume and work samples to Managing Editor Dustin Hughes at dhughes@ubmedia.biz or by snail mail to Dustin Hughes, Vernal Express, 60 E. 100 North, Vernal, UT 84078

The Express is an Equal Opportunity employer.

 

There was a Cal Ripken regional here last summer that one of our teams was in ... and that's all I got.

 

Speaking of the middle of nowhere.

 

Those goddamn nomads!

Wiki: Vernal, unlike most Utah towns, was not settled by Mormons. Brigham Young sent a scouting party to Uintah Basin in 1861 and received word back the area was good for nothing but nomad purposes, hunting grounds for Indians and "to hold the world together." That same year, President Abraham Lincoln set the area aside as the Uintah Indian Reservation, with Captain Pardon Dodds appointed Indian agent.

Gordon Gee fits into the academic nomad mode:

* Earl W. Bascom - Inventor,[9] Hall of Fame rodeo cowboy, actor, international artist and sculptor [10]
* Lane Frost - Rodeo star, attended junior high school in Vernal
* E. Gordon Gee - Academic, has held more university presidencies (5) than any other American
* Douglas Kent Hall - writer and photographer, Academy Award winner[11]
* James Woods - Film and television actor

 

Vernal is almost to Colorado. Not a whole lot going on out there other than a Dinosaur museum.