Recent content by Creig Ewing

In Louisville, college basketball stories consistently get the most web hits each day. I will be surprised if we have a story on our Sports front tomorrow that doesn't involve college basketball -- with a men's Big East preview, Indiana follow, Western Kentucky playing for a trip to the NCAAs...

Speaking of plans, I used to live in Orlando and know the parks pretty well. We visited a couple years ago and mapped out a plan to visit all four parks in the same day, go on 3-4 specific rides in each park and make our 7:30 dinner reservation in Epcot. We made it by going early and getting...

amreader, Are you staying downtown? Doc Crow's is a good place to eat and it's a block from the arena. If you go to Slugger Museum, make a stop in 21C hotel nearby. Lots of cool/fun stuff in the lobby area to check out. A good, old/fashioned bar with some character is the Seelbach hotel...

You say you are young and looking for that first full-time job. I assume you are a recent college graduate. If that's the case, try hard need to shout from your cover letter that you are a recent college graduate. That's like saying -- "I have no experience." Instead, give some examples of...

Steve started Tuesday.

I did not get back to everyone, and I apologize for that. We had a lot of really good candidates so the main factor was someone with significant experience covering recruiting. Many sports writers don't like to dirty their hands with it. So we wanted someone who was comfortable in that role...

They revised the memo and are not mandating the usage of US Presswire. They want papers to treat it as staff art. If they don't have a photo you need, go with AP or whatever.

I worked with Lynn as an assistant sports editor for several years in Orlando before the Van era. Lynn was a good co-worker, and people didn't hate him. I can't think of a single instance of plagiarism or corner-cutting in that time. Lynn is very good at promoting himself, and a lot of people...

Attaching the cover letter isn't a problem. But you want to make a good first impression. If the first thing I see is an email saying basically that you are interested in the sports position at my publication (without saying what the publication is) and that your resume, cover letter and clips...

As lousy as the posting is on JournalismJobs.com, we have received more than 80 applications for the sports writing position. If you have applied and haven't heard back, I apologize. I am off this week but am trying to at least look at the applications. Many of the applicants are fresh out of...

Sorry, folks. This posting is in error. We do have a reporting opening coming, but it will pay quite a bit more than $15,000. This was a basic in-house description. Don't know where the salary figure came from. A big part of it is covering recruiting for the paper and on the web. Experience...

Congrats to Michael. Good hire by Lauderdale.

Re: Eric Crawford, Rick Bozich leaving the Louisville Courier-Journal OK, one last time. I was responding to comments that we are a shell of what we used to be. This was before Rick and Eric even left the building. If you want to compare the C-J now to the C-J 15 years ago, there are lots...

Re: Eric Crawford, Rick Bozich leaving the Louisville Courier-Journal This will be my last post on the subject because I don't want to contribute any more typos, but our editor made a point to say in print that we will replace both. We aren't planning to replace them with clerks. Granted...

Re: Eric Crawford, Rick Bozich leaving the Louisville Courier-Journal Several of the people you mention as being gone were hired to replace others on your list so that while we have lost good people we have always been able to hire people.