Manager, Media Relations - Boston Red Sox

[sports scrub]

Manager, Media Relations - Boston Red Sox (Boston, MA)

Reports to: Director, Media Relations

Primary Responsibilities:
• Cultivate relationships with uniformed personnel and media; represent the activities of both departments to media and internally
• Deputy to Director of Media Relations, assisting with management of department operations
• Travel with the team on approximately one-third of road trips

Serve as the Deputy to Director, Media Relations in providing support for the following functions:
• Daily Baseball Media Relations
• Press box management
• Game Notes
• Daily Manager, player, uniform personnel media availability
• Regular Baseball Ops announcements, including trades
• GM, Baseball Ops, Player interview requests
• On-site media relations for Road Games
• Spring Training media relations
• Post-season media relations

Ideal candidate will have:
• 3-5 years prior experience working in public relations with a Major League club, including team travel, clubhouse presence, baseball writing, press conferences
• Experience managing a staff
• Prior experience with American League media
• Familiarity with national sports media
• Postseason experience

http://baseballjobs.teamworkonline.com/teamwork/r.cfm?i=22998

 

[budcrew08]

This would be a dream job [/fanboi]

 

[Grimace]

Holy crap. Can you imagine the freakin' workload? The number of applicants?

 

[playthrough]

The number of qualified applicants (meeting all the criteria listed) should be a few dozen. The number of applicants they'll get will be in the thousands. Someone's gonna need a big circular file.

 

[Claws for Concern]

Doesn't ESPN already do this job? NESN, too?

 

[FuturaBold]

I'm hired! ;D

 

[bpoindexter]

Outstanding comment Claws, truly outstanding!
I have 30 years of experience in sports journalism, from agate to management, yet I know if I applied for this gig I wouldn't get so much as a sniff. But I take solace in that since I'm a lifelong Yankees fan, I'd have to do this job with one hand, since the other would be holding my nose.
Go Yanks!!!

 

[Fudgie the Whale]

Ideal candidate will have:
• 3-5 years prior experience working in public relations with a Major League club, including team travel, clubhouse presence, baseball writing, press conferences

That should narrow the field. Basically, if you're not already in media relations at another club, good luck.

 

[budcrew08]

Outstanding comment Claws, truly outstanding!
I have 30 years of experience in sports journalism, from agate to management, yet I know if I applied for this gig I wouldn't get so much as a sniff. But I take solace in that since I'm a lifelong Yankees fan, I'd have to do this job with one hand, since the other would be holding my nose.
Go Yanks!!!

Boo! [/fanboi]

 

[steveu]

To quote Florida on Good Times:
DAMN!
DAMN!!
DAMN!!!

What a job.

 

[The Cubby Bear]

I am shocked that this job was even posted --- whoever said they'll get thousands of resumes is completely right. And in the end, they'll just promote someone from one of the other 29 MLB teams. Seems like a waste of time for them to even ask for outside candidates.

That said - if anyone is seriously interested in being qualified for a position like this in the future, contact me. There's a pretty extensive process to be taken to get into MLB PR ...

 

[Michael_ Gee]

As someone who observed many people in this job from the point of view of a Boston media member with whom relations were conducted, let me say this. I wouldn't do it. Not for anything.

 

[Moderator1]

Why not?

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Well, putting up with assholes like me, for openers.
Seriously, it is an 18-hour a day job dealing with extraordinarily demanding people (not nasty, but demanding) both within and outside your organization. Moddy, I know you do game notes. Baseball game notes are, to me anyway, about the hardest, most thankless job I can imagine. Not to mention updating the stats on the Web site at, oh, 3 a.m.
But most of all, being necessarily in the middle of the professional athlete-media member relationship strikes me as a good way to grow old before one's time.

 

[The Cubby Bear]

Well Moddy will attest to this,

Game notes are mostly for the amusement of the author --- the manager and coaches might take a glance at them and the broadcaster will use some of the information in them

...but seriously, who outside the guy writing the notes cares that Player A is hitting .327 in 19 day-game at bats?

Also - no need to update stats on the website anymore. Thank you BAM!

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Cubby, the Red Sox PR staff has made game notes a point of obsessive pride since my first year covering the team, which was 1980. It's an institutional deal.
More importantly, the media-team atmosphere around the Sox is intensely claustrophobic. There's a lot of Glenn Close-Michael Douglas in the entire dialetic between New England and the franchise. Being in the middle of that 24/7/365-well, no thank you. On the easiest side of the relationship there could be, columnist (didn't need to be nearly as obsessive as beat guys, and wasn't there every day), I was always sort of glad when the season ended, much as I love baseball.

 

[The Cubby Bear]

Fair enough. I don't know how the Red Sox handle their PR department any better than I know how any team handles their PR staff outside of my own.

Obviously, PR isn't for everyone ... just as covering a team on the other side isn't for everyone.

...but... so you know ... Everyone is happier when the season is over!

 

[OceanLottery]

Does anyone happen to know if there's been any movement on this job? I was watching MLBTV last night, they were broadcasting the Padres game, and the announcer was saying farewell to a person in the Padres media relations department, Leah Tobin, who he said was taking a job with the Red Sox. I'm just wondering if she's the one who'll be filling this role.

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

Leah's great. Very nice person. And a lot of reporters use game notes, and ***** like crazy when they're wrong (and depending on the media relations dept's work habits, it's often justified).