Are you an experienced sports editor who wants to move up to more responsibility? Does your passion remain with local sports, but you’d like to run your own newspaper?
If so, we’d like to hear from you. We may have just the right opportunity for you.
Hometown News Limited Partnership, publisher of nine community newspapers in beautiful southern Wisconsin, seeks a combination of managing editor and sports editor for The Milton Courier, a community weekly newspaper located just south of Madison.
This position serves as the managing editor of the overall newspaper with primary responsibility as the sports editor.
You would supervise a news editor and a part-time office administrative position. We also have a full-time advertising sales representative in the Milton office.
Duties include:
Equal Opportunity Employer.
To apply, email your resume, cover letter and references to:
Chris Mertes
[email protected]
If so, we’d like to hear from you. We may have just the right opportunity for you.
Hometown News Limited Partnership, publisher of nine community newspapers in beautiful southern Wisconsin, seeks a combination of managing editor and sports editor for The Milton Courier, a community weekly newspaper located just south of Madison.
This position serves as the managing editor of the overall newspaper with primary responsibility as the sports editor.
You would supervise a news editor and a part-time office administrative position. We also have a full-time advertising sales representative in the Milton office.
Duties include:
- Covering local sports stories, including high school athletic teams and tournaments, youth athletics, and other related events of interest in our readership area through reporting, photography and writing sports stories.
- Supervise the staff and overall functions of the newspaper including news coverage, page layout, production, and office operations.
- Coordinate additional coverage through the use of freelance writers and photographers.
- Produce the sports pages for both newspapers each week using InDesign and Photoshop software, including layout, design, writing headlines and cutlines, photo editing, and pagination.
- Supervise, provide training and assistance as needed to the news editor to ensure comprehensive local news coverage.
- Exemplary people skills to lead a small team in producing an award-winning community newspaper
- Sports reporting, writing and editing skills
- Photography skills
- Page layout and design experience with InDesign and Adobe Creative Cloud.
- Computer skills including Microsoft Word.
Equal Opportunity Employer.
To apply, email your resume, cover letter and references to:
Chris Mertes
[email protected]
