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The DeKalb Daily Chronicle (Ill.) is looking for freelancers to cover high school sporting events and write local feature stories on a consistent basis. Any sports journalists in the area may contact sports editor Ross Jacobson at [email protected] OR 815-756-4841 (ext. 224).

Our search has restarted. We have hired a new editor of the Daily Chronicle, former Northwest Herald sports editor Eric Olson. We obviously look forward to Eric's leadership and the new sports editor will have plenty of sports experience in the building. If you have sent in resumes, we still...

No update yet, hope to have one at some point in the next week

We've got twins (Ross and Grant James) from our area who are rowing for the U.S. in the London Olympics. If you'll be there and you're credentialed, we're looking for someone to file a few stories on them. Contact sports editor John Sahly at [email protected] for more information.

Here is the update: Our senior editor and managing editor left within about a week of each other for new jobs. As a result, the sports editor position will not be filled until a new senior editor is hired. So we will restart our search in (hopefully) 3-4 weeks. The paper is doing fine with an...

Bumping this up, we are still accepting applications at this point.

I wanted to get this out here as soon as possible. This person will be replacing me, though I am not leaving the Chronicle. Starting July 1, I will slide over to a web producer position. I'm truly excited about it and can't wait to get started. It wasn't an easy decision to change jobs. The...

Just curious, why hasn't investigative reporter appeared on any of these fantasy lists?

Hi everyone, Just a quick update. We've received a lot of resumes/clips and it's a deep talent pool on this one. If you haven't submitted your materials, please get them in by 5 p.m. Thursday. I hope to have calls/emails out to schedule phone interviews by Monday. And to those of you who have...

The Daily Chronicle, a 9,000 circulation six-day a week newspaper owned by Shaw Newspapers that covers DeKalb County, Ill., has an immediate opening for an energetic reporter to cover Northern Illinois University and high school athletics. This is an opportunity for a writer to spread his or...

My stack of papers arrived today, can't wait to dig through them. Thanks again for doing this, Toby.

We did something a little different design-wise for our football player of the year with an infographic...

The Daily Chronicle, a 9,000 circulation six-day a week newspaper owned by Shaw Newspapers that covers DeKalb County, Ill., has an immediate opening for an energetic reporter to cover Northern Illinois University and high school athletics. This is an opportunity for a writer to spread his or...

I came in today to see a huge stack of sections on my desk. I've only paged through most of them, but I've got to say, a lot of nice work out there. And a huge thank you to Toby for doing this. This is pretty incredible.

Yes, I wanted to let everyone know that we've hired Jeremy Werner from the Paxton Record and Champaign News-Gazette. We're obviously very excited. Thanks to everyone who applied. I have tried to get back to everyone and if I missed anybody I apologize. We had a lot of great applicants.