Recent content by ScottFaldon

I don't see an ad for it yet, but the current University of Arkansas beat writer for the Arkansas News Bureau (Gatehouse) is moving to SECCountry.com. He told me the position will be filled, so I thought I'd post it early so everybody can get a jump on sending in apps. The hiring will be...

We never staffed (nor wrote at all about) junior high sports when I was sports editor. I think they might have started doing roundups of junior high football since I left - which is a waste of resources.

Several reasons. Mainly, I was putting in way too many hours per week. Plus, as a long-term and salaried employee I worried that one day the bean counters would look at my salary and decide they could hire somebody to do my job at half of what I was making. So I got a corporate PR job. That...

I spent 18 years there, 10 as the sports editor before I left last August. I left before the sale to Gatehouse, so I'll defer on that one. The main focus is preps coverage, I think we had nearly 40 schools in our last football tab and that was after I cut a lot of rural ones due to staff...

It's a domino from Robbie leaving and Eric moving to the UA beat. So it's to fill Eric's position covering preps and, I think, UAFS (since nobody else there seems to want to do it).

My old shop as an opening ... The Times Record, a 30,000-circulation daily on the Arkansas-Oklahoma border, is looking for a sports reporter who is dedicated to accuracy in game stories and humanity in features. The Times Record, more than 125 years old, is the dominant news force in the...

Yes, one of our guys is taking a gig as a weekend sports anchor at a TV station in town. If anybody here has sent resumes, please be patient. Our football tab was published today and we had a Babe Ruth World Series happening here last week. Plus high school volleyball started. So I'm way behind...

The Times Record in Fort Smith, Ark., is looking for a sports writer. The main focus will be high school coverage, but you will also have the chance to write features on local athletes playing at various Division I programs, help with coverage of the local NCAA Division II program and write...

I think I might have been there once or twice over the years.

Thanks for the kind words. If anybody has any questions about the job, paper, city or good places to eat here in town, I'll be glad to answer them.

Re: Sportswriter - Fort Smith, Ark. I got word today of a hiring freeze effective immediately. I guess a freeze is better than hiring somebody and laying them off a month later. I'm sorry I wasted anybody's time and/or got anybody's hopes up. If you sent a resume, I'll hang onto it. When If...

Re: Sportswriter - Fort Smith, Ark. I've got an open tab at Papa's Pub. Come collect it and I'll throw in a pizza.

Re: Sportswriter - Fort Smith, Ark. Thanks for all the kind words. Beers on me next time (if I can figure out who some of you are). But I have to correct one thing — it's impossible to be too into English Premier League soccer.

Re: Sportswriter - Fort Smith, Ark. Yes, it was Tim Mullin. I hated to lose him, but he had a really good opportunity to return home.

Re: Sportswriter - Fort Smith, Ark. The guy hired early last year is the one who left. He was from Nevada and got a great job offer (non-journalism) back home.