Opening in Knoxville

[Philkaplan]

I hope to post the job description and other details Monday, but I wanted to alert folks that I have opening for a reporter at the News Sentinel in Knoxville.
The job would cover recruiting and help with football beat at UT.
Here's what I'm looking for:
Strong writing and reporting skills.
Multimedia skills for radio, television and online.
Social media skills.
And because it's UT: how to file FOI requests, get police reports and cover the courts.
I hope to fill the position by the end of August.
Please no phone calls.
I'm accepting resumes and clips.
The e-mail address is [email protected]
Snail mail is 2332 News Sentinel Drive, Knoxville, TN 37921

Phil Kaplan
Sports editor
Knoxville News Sentinel

 

[Drip]

Phil is good people. This sounds like he's looking for all purpose journalist but I'm sure he'll fill in the blanks.

 

[Steak Snabler]

"And because it's UT: how to file FOI requests, get police reports and cover the courts."

Awesome.

 

[Shifty Squid]

"And because it's UT: how to file FOI requests, get police reports and cover the courts."

Awesome.

... and very, very true.

 

[FreddiePatek]

Phil's not just good people ... he's one of the best.

 

[CYowSMR]

I couldn't do it. As a long time UT fan, I would cry if I knew everything going on in my school's life.

 

[Stitch]

I couldn't do it. As a long time UT fan, I would cry if I knew everything going on in my school's life.

I don't care that much about any team to not want to cover one due to hero worship.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I was always very impressed with the Knoxville paper. I haven't seen in it several years, but when I did, it was one of the best of its size.

 

[Shifty Squid]

This is Dave Hooker's old job. Hooker is leaving for a radio job in town.

And I echo what Mizzou said. This is a very solid paper. Relatively new building near downtown. You can see it looming very prominently from the interstate. Lots of good people to work with in sports, from Phil to John Adams, Mike Griffith, Dan Fleser, Austin Ward and Tennessee Sports Writer of the Year Mike Strange.

They have a radio show in town (The Sports Page, I think) where most of their sports staff participates, and you'll have chances to participate in the Sunday morning TV show where they discuss the UT football games if you get this job. It really is a multimedia operation, so it's great for somebody wanting to dabble in a lot of different areas.

 

[CYowSMR]

I couldn't do it. As a long time UT fan, I would cry if I knew everything going on in my school's life.

I don't care that much about any team to not want to cover one due to hero worship.

When I was in school at Jax State it was just as bad. I could see what was going on in the football program and it was bad. Hated to cover the bad things because it would kill relationships. Plus I loved our players, but they were blloming idiots (hence why the Cocks didn't make the playoffs this year due to APR)

 

[writingump]

Good luck to Dave because he's going to need it, going up against Jimmy Hyams' and John Wilkerson's afternoon drive time show. Jimmy and John run a very good show and Dave will have to do something special to cut into their listener base. Whoever gets Dave's old job will have plenty of opportunities between recruiting, football and football arrests.

 

[CYowSMR]

Good luck to Dave because he's going to need it, going up against Jimmy Hyams' and John Wilkerson's afternoon drive time show. Jimmy and John run a very good show and Dave will have to do something special to cut into their listener base. Whoever gets Dave's old job will have plenty of opportunities between recruiting, football and football arrests.

Blah Blah Blah with the arrests. Don't worry, guys. In two years, the UT program will be clean and free. (i.e. Alabama)

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Their gameday sections were pretty amazing. It was a bit homerish, but that had more to do with cartoons they ran and gamecards that were there than anything the staff wrote.

I would say that of the hometown papers in the SEC, it was close between Knoxville and The State for best football coverage.

 

[BTExpress]

Wish somehow they could bring back the Dyergram (artist is dead, but as I kid I would just be mesmerized every Sunday morning).

http://olive.knoxnews.com/olive/ODE/Knoxville/server/GetContent.asp?contentsrc=primitive&dochref=KNS%2F2008%2F09%2F28&entityid=Pc03602&pageno=36&chunkid=Pc03602&repformat=1.0&primid=Pc0360200&imgext=jpg&type=Content&for=primitive

 

[SalukiNC]

That's the craziest infographic I've ever seen.

 

[Tarheel316]

I don't care that much about any team to not want to cover one due to hero worship.

Agreed. I am a UNC grad and I criticized my alma mater in column when Butch Davis got an extension with a big raise after going 4-8 in his first season. Got some hate mail from one Tar Heel fan who accused me of being anti-Carolina, which kind of made me chuckle. I wrote him back, pointed out my alumni status and told him I reserved the right to criticize my university if I felt it made a bad decision.

 

[BTExpress]

That's the craziest infographic I've ever seen.

And I just shake my head in disgust when I see what papers try to pass off as a "drive chart" for big games today.

Dyergrams gave you every play, every penalty, every punt, every fumble and told you who made key plays. And did it with personality (and a little homerism, too).

But I guess they're just not practical in a sports era with so many night games. But stuff like that is why I dreamed of working at newspapers as a kid. Imagine, being at a place where that cool stuff is produced.

Today, we're trained monkeys sourcing up modules from Chicago.

 

[Drip]

This one is down to the final 3.

 

[Philkaplan]

After a search that started in mid-July, I'm happy to announce that Andrew Gribble, who covers Auburn for the Opelika-Auburn News, will join the staff of the News Sentinel at the end of the month.
He will be covering Tennessee football and recruiting.

 

[Drip]

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