Sports writer job in Indiana

Company: The Star Press / Gannett
Position: Seeking talented sports writer
Location: Muncie, Indiana
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Negotiable
Website: http://www.thestarpress.com

The job: The Star Press, Muncie, Ind., is looking for a high-energy, fresh-thinking sports reporter to tell the stories that happen both on and off the fields of East Central Indiana. The Star Press covers Division-I Ball State University, 19 high schools and several community sports organizations and events. Applicants must have a wide range of skills, including the ability to produce gamers, features, enterprise packages, analysis, sports news, columns and blog entries. Applicants should be able to work quickly on deadline, manage time properly while developing several stories at once and work well within a beat-based, five-person staff structure. A preference will be placed on applicants who have had professional experience or who have fulfilled multiple internships. A degree in journalism is required. Send a one-page cover letter, résumé and clips to Sports Editor Greg Fallon at P.O. Box 2408, Muncie, IN 47307-0408 or via e-mail at gfallon@muncie.gannett.com.

Note: Open positions (two) are not for the Ball State beat.

 

On a somewhat related note, was Greg promoted to sports editor or did he come from another paper?

 

yup. he was recently promoted from ASE.

 

Muncie still can't hold a candle to the Haute.

 

Neither are the wonder that is Fort Wayne.

 

The question is: Do they cover the Muncie College of Business Administration? Go Eagles!

 

Maybe I'm off-base on this, but it seems like Muncie is cycling through a lot of people lately.

 

They had an opening (seems like) about 4 months ago, but yea, there seem to have been a lot of openings there recently.

 

The opening was for sports editor, which I applied for and obviously did not get. (You're NOT hired!)

Seriously... congratulations to Greg and good luck in filling the position. Muncie's in the middle of nowhere, but it's a good community.

 

One word: Gannett.

Before Gannett bought the place from the Pulliams, there was very little turnover in the sports department. Fresh out of college, I would have loved to go there. Now, not so much. (That and an acquired taste for Southern sweet tea and cheese grits that I've developed since leaving the Midwest....)

As for the Ball State beat, I assume Doug Zaleski is still on it, no? (He's been doing it for at least the past 15 years, back to when Muncie had two papers...)

 

my wife's cousin goes to Ball State. Muncie's nice, but as steveu said, it is in the middle of nowhere. good sports scene though

 

As someone who grew up in Indiana, let me point out that everywhere in Indiana is in the middle of nowhere. Even Indianapolis, which was is in the exact middle of the state. I guess the Region could be the exception.