Sports Writer, Oneonta, N.Y.

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Company: The Daily Star
Position: Sports Writer
Location:Oneonta, New York
Job Status:Full-time
Salary:Not Specified
Ad Expires: August 26, 2007
Website: http://www.thedailystar.com

Description:
Full-time Sports Writer

The Daily Star is accepting applications for a full-time sports writer. Experience in writing, reporting and layout mandatory. Experience in photography and Adobe InDesign a plus. Duties include but are not limited to covering local sports events, editing local and national copy and designing sports pages on a nightly basis. The Daily Star covers the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, the Single-A Oneonta Tigers, the AMA Motocross Championships, 30 high schools, four colleges and a plethora of other local events. Nights and weekends are mandatory, as is residing within The Daily Star’s coverage area. Pay commensurate with experience. Anyone interested in this position should mail at minimum a cover letter, a resume and five clips illustrating competence in writing and layout to The Daily Star, c/o Dean Russin, Sports Editor, P.O. Box 250, Oneonta, NY 13820. E-mails and phone calls will not be accepted.

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Good place for any newbie to start, or anyone in the biz looking for their second stop.

Oneonta is close to Cooperstown, and sits in central NY between Binghamton and Albany. Not a bad spot, and very scenic. The city itself has the feel/look of a college town. And with Dean your SE there are much, much worse places to work - he's a stand-up guy respected around the state.

 

I saw this last night... why no e-mails?

 

[blue] Sports writers having to work nights and weekends? Who knew?[/blue]

 

Just passed through there on vacation... beautiful country. Oh yeah, Cooperstown is just right up the road.

 

Great area, and this paper passionately covers its local sports. Plus you get to do several cool stories a year on the Baseball HOF.

 

i wish the heartbreakers didn't like to eat or drink and that they didn't take stuff like new clothes, coats, shoes, and heat for that matter, for granted.

i'd love to live there.

 

Don't forget about the Oneonta Tigers of the NY-P League that play in that jewel known as Damaschke Field.

 

The paper's editor, Sam Pollak, was a big-city sports guy: New Orleans, Dallas, Cleveland.

 

This paper has produced a lot of big-time talent.

 

I was just going to ask whether Sam was still there.

 

I worked at the Star from 1987-88, but not in sports. It was my first break to work for a daily. I was the one-person desk that designed the main section, edited the copy and wrote the headlines. Needless to say it was a lot of pressure. As a bachelor in my mid-20s at the time it was a fun place to be at night and weekends with two colleges (plus no Sunday paper). Brooks bbq was probably one of the best places I have ever eaten. Add the Hall of Fame and minor-league baseball in the summer. It didn't pay much but the editor at the time (Ken Hall) reeled me in when I could have been lost.



Phil Kaplan
Deputy sports editor
Knoxville News Sentinel

 

Agreed completely. Did a school internship there and a summer job about 3 or 4 years ago. Dean is a terrific editor and will stand up for you. Also there is good prep sports, the Baseball and Soccer HOFs nearby and short-season A baseball.

If the timing was a little different, I would be all over this job.