Virginia Tech football beat (The Virginian-Pilot)

Sounds like a pretty good deal. Landmark Media Enterprises - is that a spinoff from Landmark Community Newspapers Inc.?

http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=1274434


Company: The Virginian-Pilot
Position:
Sports writer-Virginia Tech football
Location:
Blacksburg, Virginia
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Negotiable
Ad Expires:
September 6, 2011
Job ID: 1274434

Description:

The Virginian-Pilot and The Roanoke Times, both newspapers owned by Landmark
Media Enterprises, are seeking a sports writer to cover Virginia Tech football.
The successful candidate will lead joint coverage of the beat, writing breaking
news stories, features, explanatory and investigative articles. The successful
candidate also will provide regular and consistent online coverage, including
but not limited to a blog and social media content. This person will be
self-directed in this regard, with the goal of making The Roanoke Times and The
Virginian-Pilot the preeminent sources for Virginia Tech football news.

When football is not in season, this person will stay on top of the beat while
also writing on various other topics, including sports from other Virginia
colleges and universities.

This person will report to The Roanoke Times sports editor from July 16-Jan. 15
and to The Virginian-Pilot sports editor from Jan. 16-July 15.

Closing date is Tuesday, Aug. 9. Apply using the link below. If you already have
a resume in our system, you should update it FIRST before you apply; otherwise
it will automatically pick up your old resume.

https://commsjobs.ats.hrsmart.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=2998

If you have trouble the above link, go to
www.thevirginianpilot.com/mediacompanies, click on Search for Jobs, click on
Quick Job Search, then enter job code 2998.

 

Whoever gets this will have big shoes to fill as Kyle worked the hell out of this beat. At least you'll get to deal with one of the nicest coaches around in Frank Beamer. I can't speak for the sports editor at the Pilot, but I've dealt with Steven Hemphill at the Roanoke Times frequently and he's good to work with.

 

Was thinking the same thing. Glad another journalist will be able to have a job, not just change the position.

 

I wonder if this is a hybrid of Randy King's and Kyle Tucker's positions? Reading it makes me think that, especially if they're in a hiring freeze, and multiple people have said they are.

 

I had heard hiring freeze, too. And as far as I know, Tucker did not report to separate editors. Randy King has had some legal issues at Roanoke, but as far as I knew he was still there, right?

 

Randy is still there. He was at the ACC kickoff. The original plan was for him to provide all content for Roanoke and Norfolk. Good to see that's changed. It's too big of a beat for Norfolk not to have somebody on it.

 

Totally agree. Had the Pilot not filled that position, they'd have no real glamour beats to call their own. They already get UVa from Roanoke, swooping in for features/big games/stretches when the football or basketball team gets hot, they dropped the Redskins beat, they've been sharing NASCAR with the other two big Landmark dailies (and that I'm guessing is done too). If they aren't staffing VT, then their coverage zone is limited to South Hampton Roads.

If you're reporting to the Pilot SE for six months, I wonder if that means you're not living in Blacksburg full-time?

 

Wonder what the jack will be.

 

I heard from somebody that works in Roanoke today that Randy is still at the paper, but won't be on the VT beat.

 

Whoa. Interesting. He wrote the lead-in to practice starting and the story in today's RT from the open of practice.