News Reporter, Santa Barbara News Press

[Claws for Concern]

Maybe this will be moved since it isn't a sports opening, but how can this ad say all of this with a straight face while it continues to deal with the obvious issues. :-\

Company: Santa Barbara News-Press
Position: Reporter
Location: Santa Barbara, California
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Not Specified
Ad Expires: June 6, 2007
Job ID: 659184


Description:
The Santa Barbara News-Press, an award-winning 41,000-circulation daily on the beautiful South Coast, seeks multi-talented Reporters with a flair for clear, concise, colorful writing and a passion for pounding the pavement for stories. The right candidates will have the ability to give our Web site a boost by helping create the kind of interactive content that will have readers wanting to come back for more and check out our print edition. A bachelor's degree in journalism or a communications field is required. The News-Press offers competitive salary and excellent benefits package. To apply, please send your resume, cover letter and clips to: The Santa Barbara News-Press, P.O. Box 1359, Santa Barbara, CA. 93102-1359 Attn: Human Resources or e-mail [email protected]

 

[Chi City 81]

This job will not end well for whomever takes it.

 

[Shaggy]

Run.

 

[Tom Petty]

In addition to the myriad of other problems this paper faces ...

LAObserved said this week that the News-Press is <a href="http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/05/circulation_pt_2.php">down to 38K</a> circ now. A 9.5 percent drop after all the Crazy Wendy bull****.

i love her chili, though, buck.

 

[m2spts]

Ask for a guaranteed, up front $100,000 ... and it might be worth your time.
Once, the SBNP was an outstanding newspaper with a great sports staff.
John Nadel of the AP in Los Angeles worked there, along with several other very talented people.
You won't make it there for anything less than $45K. Housing is beyond belief.
Handle with care.

 

[Idaho]

In addition to the myriad of other problems this paper faces ...

just a small nit to pick, since we have to do it all the time with one of our columnists

It's "in addition to myriad other problems" not "the myriad of"

/picking of nits

 

[Left_Coast]

Don't you have a bike to ride or something?

 

[Idaho]

30 miles yesterday, actually. It's raining today, so I'll just do an afternoon swim of 1,000 meters at the pool.

I've got to wonder, though. If you're just a worker bee trying to cut his/her teeth and exist in the background without getting too involved with the ugliness in the rest of the newsroom, how tough would it be to take a job at this paper for a year or two to get experience and then try to move on?

 

[Bob Slydell]

I would rather clean the booth at an adult book store than work at that place.

 

[OTD]

Ask for a guaranteed, up front $100,000 ... and it might be worth your time.
Once, the SBNP was an outstanding newspaper with a great sports staff.
John Nadel of the AP in Los Angeles worked there, along with several other very talented people.
You won't make it there for anything less than $45K. Housing is beyond belief.
Handle with care.

For $45K you're still living in Oxnard. In the bad part.

I heard they're down to two city-side reporters. There was a time (actually, up until about a year ago) when I'd have given anything to work there. Now, not so much.

 

[slappy4428]

Crazy Wendy bull****... for some reason, I love that line...

 

[DanOregon]

Maybe if Jerry Roberts wins his suit and wins the paper back it might be a cool place to work, but that crap they pulled with the computer porn was disgusting. Just think, with that job, you too could be bullied into cobbling together a b.s. story defaming someone, but at least you wouldn't have to put your byline on it. That paper is the worst piece of crap since the SF Chron and Examiner went on strike and put out a scab rag for a few weeks with fake bylines.

 

[CradleRobber]

I've got to wonder, though. If you're just a worker bee trying to cut his/her teeth and exist in the background without getting too involved with the ugliness in the rest of the newsroom, how tough would it be to take a job at this paper for a year or two to get experience and then try to move on?

You'd likely move on with Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis or worse. Santa Barbara is the STD capital of California.

 

[DanOregon]

Dear "Idaho", this is not a newspaper you want on your resume at this time. Any hiring editor in the future will look at you as someone who wouldn't have his or her back, or who doesn't have an understanding of journalism ethics.

 

[slappy4428]

I would rather clean the booth at an adult book store than work at that place.

Thanks for the visual

 

[Idaho]

Dear "Idaho", this is not a newspaper you want on your resume at this time. Any hiring editor in the future will look at you as someone who wouldn't have his or her back, or who doesn't have an understanding of journalism ethics.

I agree. I was just thinking to myself about the poor people who still work there just trying to provide for themselves and their families while not wanting to be stained by the maniac in the leather chair. Impossible to not be stained, I know, but just wondering to myself how hard it would be to be the little sports guy in the corner just trying to write high school gamers and not get involved with the other side of the newsroom -- trying to imagine being that guy.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

OK, I'm sure this is probably a google search could take care of, but why all the venom toward this place and 'Wendy'?

 

[mpcincal]

Also google "Santa Barbara Smackdown" and/or "Susan Paterno." Still the best article for those who are new to all the NP shenanigans.