Do-it-all sports person -- Cumming, Ga.

[nietsroob17]

Any thoughts?
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Company: Swartz-Morris Media
Position: Do-it-all sports person
Location: Cumming, Georgia
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: $20,000 to $25,000
Ad Expires: December 8, 2006
Job ID: 699295


Description:
Award winning newspaper group in North Atlanta area is starting a new communty weekly and immediately needs someone who can do it all as a one-person sports staff. Reporting, editing, photography and page design are all part of the job description, with prep and rec league sports the highest priorities. Not everyone gets a chance to be part of a totally new publication, and this is your opportunity to be the first ever in your position. Great opportunities for advancement to larger papers within the group, including dailies. Experience is a big plus. E-mail resume to [email protected]

 

[somewriter]

Is that really the name of a town?

 

[bydesign77]

and forsyth county is one of the fastest growing in georgia. and not cheap

 

[dixiehack]

and forsyth county is one of the fastest growing in georgia. and not cheap

And more to the point, already has a newspaper.

 

[Pencil Dick]

The paper in Cumming, GA, (not sure if it's a daily) is also owned by Swartz-Morris Media.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

No one should be willing to do it all for 20-25k, but sadly, someone will.

 

[boots]

No one should be willing to do it all for 20-25k, but sadly, someone will.

You gotta do, what you gotta do. That doesn't mean that you have to stay there.
Besides, it will be interesting to see just how much money the company will spend before abandoning ship.

 

[doctor x]

Someone name me a newspaper (or newspaper group) that is NOT "award winning." Gees, get a certificate from the Chamber of Commerce for some fluffery and you are "award winning."

 

[Tom Petty]

The paper in Cumming, GA, (not sure if it's a daily) is also owned by Swartz-Morris Media.

how's the housing market there? do you have to blow your load just to rent?

 

[Football_Bat]

Isn't Cumming's mascot the Trojans?

 

[nietsroob17]

Wish it was that easy but all the high school are named after the county of Forsyth (North, South, Central).

 

[bigbadeagle]

It's not far from Alpharetta, also known as "Breathing Hard." 8)

 

[EGM67]

Sounds just like my job right now. It ain't so bad being the only sports person. It is a ton of work, but I have total control of what gets in.

 

[Tom Petty]

Sounds just like my job right now. It ain't so bad being the only sports person. It is a ton of work, but I have total control of what gets in.

sounds as though you wouldn't know if you were cumming or going.

 

[HoopsMcCann]

reminds me a of an old joke....

why are people in gainesville (ga.) so happy?

they're close to cumming

 

[HoopsMcCann]

yeah, i heard it before i'd ever been to gainesville....

gainesville sucks

 

[Omar from the Wire]

This is a tough job to do for 20k. In the ATL 'burbs? No Bankhead for who ever lands this. But, if the youngster thinks this out right, he/she can cover all the Cummings preps they want, but also find reason to sneek to Atlanta for the occasional pro/ GA-Tech feature or even gamer.
And I'm 4ever in agreement with Doc X, I'm sick of every paper here (even a 1,500 circ. in mudtown usa) claiming to be award winning. There should be a rule here. Papers are misleading people. So, unless it's apse, a state or regional journalism award, it shouldn't count. Papers should have to list which award. I was awarded a partipation trophy for middle school basketball. I played in 9 games and scored like 10 total points. Does that make me an award-winning basketball player?

 

[Jack_Kerouac]

This is a tough job to do for 20k. In the ATL 'burbs? No Bankhead for who ever lands this. But, if the youngster thinks this out right, he/she can cover all the Cummings preps they want, but also find reason to sneek to Atlanta for the occasional pro/ GA-Tech feature or even gamer.
And I'm 4ever in agreement with Doc X, I'm sick of every paper here (even a 1,500 circ. in mudtown usa) claiming to be award winning. There should be a rule here. Papers are misleading people. So, unless it's apse, a state or regional journalism award, it shouldn't count. Papers should have to list which award. I was awarded a partipation trophy for middle school basketball. I played in 9 games and scored like 10 total points. Does that make me an award-winning basketball player?

Actually, you could definitely afford to live in Bankhead, which is ghetto fabulous. Buckhead, on the other hand, no chance.

 

[MrTVAMFM]

Let me jump in here a second with a few observations.

I worked at the Forsyth County News from 2002-2004. It is a 4-day-a-week newspaper. I've never heard of a 4-a-week in the free world. There is a BJ's Wholesale Club in Cumming. I got tired of telling that joke to friends after a week. I won a state award for best lifestyle section in our size classification while I was there and you better believe that was on my resume. The ad people had nothing to do with it ... especially considering they barely sold ads while I was there.

At any rate ...

The sports guy in Cumming is good (Travis Chaffin) and deserves a better job (someone help him out of there, please). Swartz-Morris Media was not so hot on benefits while I was there (abysmal health insurance). My sister worked at another S-M newspaper and passed on the insurance (used her husband's better insurance).

Forsyth County is lily white. Its minority population was less than a decimal point while I was there. Oprah Winfrey did a program from Cumming a decade ago ostensibly to revisit its lynching practices of the past. There is a Tyson Foods plant downtown ... hard by the fairgrounds ... also downtown. Do the math. I had to live at an apartment complex 15 minutes from work because the closest apartments to the office had a lovely proximity to said Tyson plant.

I would suggest this wouldn't even be a good starter job. There are some good people in that building, a recycled hardware store next to a cemetery. That's almost appropriate. And that's all for me from Gastonia (not much difference, actually).

 

[novelist_wannabe]

heh-heh, he worked in an S-M reference on a thread about Cumming ... heh-heh ....

Another demographics note : In the late 80s (which may or may not be relevant now) there was a huge KKK parade in Cumming, which at that time was pretty much rural. It's a suburb now, and a goodly portion of its population jumps on Ga 400 and drives to Atlanta to work every day.