Two jobs - one writer/one desk - Baton Rouge Advocate

Good for them.

And if Ammenheuser booted someone for misspelling his name in the cover letter, good luck to those applying to Mr. Schiefelbein.

 

I have a solution to the mizpeeling of the last name. A simple copy and paste work should do the trick.

 

You would think. You'd also think it would be the kind of thing you would double check.

 

Moddy, is there an official site with the ad?

 

The Advocate moving into N.O., and the T-P/Nola.com moving into Baton Rouge. Let the battle commence!

Joe is a great guy. The sports guys there are totally understaffed and they produce very good work. I believe their annual Football publication is coming out on Tuesday, and it's supposed to be a couple hundred pages or so. I'm guessing Tyrann Mathieu threw some wrenches at that one, though.

Good luck to all who apply. If you have any questions about the area or the paper (I don't work there, but know some folks there), feel free to ask me.

 

Anyone else get a bounce-back when trying to email? Hell, I copied and pasted, even.

 

Their football preview is "a couple hundred pages?" And they're understaffed? They either have a large staff or they're really, really, really over-worked. How many newspapers produce a football section that is "a couple hundred pages?"

 

Try pkeys@theadvocate.com -- Perryn Keys, ASE

 

Yeah, they're not understaffed. From a former writer there who also worked at smaller papers, I can tell you there is no shortage of folks there. In fact, I was often embarrassed about telling former co-workers how many desk guys we had and how many pages we got each each day compared to much, much bigger papers in the South. There's room for a lot of restructuring and I suspect Schief will do that as time goes by.

 

It's a preview magazine, not a preview edition of the paper. And it's probably closer to 150 pages.

I guess I consider having one prep writer for the entire metro area understaffed. They do have good numbers for LSU coverage though.