Sports Writer, Beaumont, Tx

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The Beaumont Enterprise seeks a reporter who understands the importance of the local sports scene and can produce news, features and enterprise stories for both print -- including A1 -- and online. Candidates must have imagination, strong reporting and writing skills and an understanding of alternative story forms, multimedia and visuals.

Also responsible for contributing ideas and content to the website, including updating the local sports database and providing video to the site. Coverage responsibilities will include reporting on Lamar University, high school, recreational and outdoor athletics.

The ideal candidate will have good communication skills; multimedia experience and mindset; the ability to multi-task and stay organized in a fast-paced environment; and local news sensibilities, including an ability to size up readers’ needs and a desire to get to know the communities and their people.

The Beaumont Enterprise, a 50,000 circulation daily, is part of the Hearst Corporation. It is located in Southeast Texas, which offers some of the lowest cost of living in the country (and there’s no state income tax), plus diverse shopping, restaurants and entertainment. Nestled in the piney East Texas woods, Beaumont is at the epicenter of a water-lover’s paradise, with lakes, rivers, bays and the Gulf of Mexico nearby. The city is a short drive from Houston and Galveston.

And there's lots of room for advancement, both within our newsroom and with Hearst.

Send cover letter, resume, references and samples of work to Kris Worrell, Managing Editor, Beaumont Enterprise, P.O. Box 3071, Beaumont, TX 77704 or kworrell@hearstnp.com.

 

How long ago was it when Beaumont laid off staffers? Six months? Eight months?

 

Strong, sports-friendly editor there, Tim Kelly. Used to be the sports editor in San Antonio and Seattle.

 

How do they distribute the coverage of Lamar and the local preps?

 

Was working at a rival paper the day Lamar dropped football in 1989. Without football, there isn't enough for a full-time Lamar beat. It's been YEARS since Lamar's been relevant in basketball.

Although in that conference, you could pretty much drive to every road game if you had the mind to do so.

Back in the day, they would staff a lot of the Houston pro teams. Was a friend of their beat writer and we'd often go have dinner across from the arena after filing our stories. One night, it's almost empty when David Robinson of the San Antonio Spurs walks in with his girl. Didn't want to bug him, but said hello on the way out.

I hear they outsourced printing to the Houston Chronicle and, as a result, their deadlines are insanely early.

 

That girl wasn't Robinson's wife?

 

omg "his girl" a.k.a. wife? jeez

 

true. but when one of the writers is promoted to SE, whatcha gonna do?

 

Not sure. Don't think he was married at the time. It was, iirc, his second year in the league.

 

well christ, did he say hello?

 

Back to the job please..any info/insight?

 

yeah. they don't pay shit.