Experienced Sports Editor wanted: Portsmouth (OH) Daily Times

[Mooninite]

From jjobs.com...
Company: Portsmouth Daily Times
Position: WANTED: Experienced sports editor
Location: Portsmouth, Ohio
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Not Specified
Ad Expires: September 28, 2008
Job ID: 968230


Description:
WANTED: Experienced sports editor. Must know Quark, photoshop, and be proficient in layout/design, producing special sections. Need community oriented journalist, and experienced staff leader. Position for self-starter on community newspaper stressing local sports, activities in Portsmouth, Ohio. Send resume to Art Kuhn, P.O. 581, Portsmouth, Ohio 45662, or email to [email protected]

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Wasn't this just posted a month or so ago?

I actually interviewed here once more than five years ago. They didn't want anyone writing columns (apparently someone before had written something about how Michigan was better than Ohio State and readers went ballistic).

Don't know if they still have that rule tho.

They did actually pay for a nights stay at the hotel, dinner and gas, which was kinda surprising for a small paper.

 

[NQLBLQ]

Open again....

http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=986038

Apparently I wasn't qualified enough... at 24... without a journalism degree.... and two years of college newspaper experience.

weird.

 

[Buckeye12]

Don't be worried. Blessing in disguise.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Heartland. There's a dealbreaker right there. After their slash-and-burn routine throughout North Carolina - and their disgusting treatment of people in Mount Airy - forget this company.

 

[Mark2010]

Who owns these guys? What size paper and staff is it?

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

You can find the owners name in the post right above yours. The ad link three posts above yours also answers how big the staff is.

Paper isn't listed on the ABC site, but it's less than 25K.

 

[Mark2010]

Heartland? Never heard of them.

 

[koolbreeze]

Circulation is a little less than 14,000 ... at last check. That's all I got.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Heartland? Never heard of them.

As stated earlier, interviewed there a number of years ago, but it wasn't Heartland at the time.

The town is a dump, lots of vacant buildings. Portsmouth people go to Chillicothe to have fun and Chillicothe isn't exactly a booming metropolis.

 

[sportschick]

Heartland? Never heard of them.

As stated earlier, interviewed there a number of years ago, but it wasn't Heartland at the time.

The town is a dump, lots of vacant buildings. Portsmouth people go to Chillicothe to have fun and Chillicothe isn't exactly a booming metropolis.

Chillicothe has some cool old buildings or did when I was in the area last. Beyond that, there isn't much.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

There's even less in Portsmouth.

 

[Hoop Time]

Spent some time there years ago on business (not journalism related). Area is pure Appalachia, near the spot where Ohio meets West Virginia and Kentucky. Only can remember two good things about the place -- a nearby state park with a half decent public golf course and a nice lake for canoeing and a lady (I use the term loosely) I met in a local bar. Between the two, they made the second week of the visit relatively pleasant, but not to the extent that I would ever consider relocating there. Can't imagine what it might be like these days given the economic decline in areas like that (and I am not talking about the recent crisis).

 

[Mark2010]

What the hell is there to cover, then?

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Don't tell me you are one of those that thinks there's nothing to cover if it isn't on TV somewhere. ::) ::)

Just like at about 75 percent of the papers nationwide, you'd cover high schools and lots of them.


There's a juco that has had some national success in women's basketball. IIRC, they also host a national tournament there every so often.
Can't remember the name, wanna say Shawnee State or something like that.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Don't tell me you are one of those that thinks there's nothing to cover if it isn't on TV somewhere. ::) ::)

Just like at about 75 percent of the papers nationwide, you'd cover high schools and lots of them.


There's a juco that has had some national success in women's basketball. IIRC, they also host a national tournament there every so often.
Can't remember the name, wanna say Shawnee State or something like that.

Not a juco. NAIA.

 

[Songbird]

Branch Rickey apparently is from Portsmouth.

And wouldn't you believe the tie Portsmouth has to the Detroit Lions ...

According to wikipedia ...

Professional sports
Portsmouth had a series of semi-pro football teams in the 1920s and 1930s, the most notable being the Portsmouth Shoe-Steels, whose roster included player-coach Jim Thorpe. From 1929 to 1933, the city was home to the Portsmouth Spartans, which joined the National Football League in 1930. The Spartans competed in the first professional football night game, against the Green Bay Packers in 1930.[16][17]. Despite their success, the team could not survive in the NFL's smallest city in the depths of the Great Depression; it was sold and moved to Detroit in 1934, where it survives today as the Detroit Lions.

The Portsmouth Explorers were one of the original teams in the Frontier League, a non-affiliated minor league baseball organization. The Explorers played in the league's first three seasons, from 1993 to 1995. In 1938, Portsmouth was also the home of the Portsmouth Red Birds, a minor league team owned by the St. Louis Cardinals.

In the late 90's Portsmouth was home to the Superstar Wrestling Federation before its demise. More recently Revolutionary Championship Wrestling has made its home in Portsmouth airing on local TV station WQCW. Revolutionary Championship Wrestling in Portsmouth has featured such wrestling stars as Big Van Vader, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Demolition Ax, "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton, "Wildcat" Chris Harris, and Ivan Koloff.

 

[Songbird]

How far does an area does "area" encompass?

Some of the people from Portsmouth and the surrounding "area" ...

Dale Bandy - Ohio University basketball coach
Al Bridwell - former Major League Baseball player
Kathleen Battle - opera singer
Gene Bennett - baseball scout and executive for Cincinnati Reds
Earl Thomas Conley - country music singer and songwriter
Martin Dillon - musician and operatic tenor
Chuck Ealey - former football player for University of Toledo
Bill Harsha - Ohio politician for the U.S. House of Representatives (1961-1981)
Larry Hisle - former Major League Baseball player, currently employed with Milwaukee Brewers Organization
Rocky Nelson - former Major League Baseball player
Al Oliver - former Major League Baseball player
Wally Phillips - former Chicago radio personality
Branch Rickey - baseball executive, signed Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers
Vern Riffe - Ohio politician (1959-95), Speaker of the House (1975-94)
Barbara Robinson - American author
Roy Rogers - singer and cowboy movie star
Ted Strickland - Ohio governor
Gene Tenace - former Major League Baseball player
Stuff Smith - Jazz musician
Josh Newman - Major League Baseball pitcher for the Colorado Rockies
Steve Free - ASCAP Award Winning Applachian Musician