Hey, all. Ron Bellamy asked to post this on here. It would be a good opportunity for the right copy editor -- nice area of the country, family-owned paper, good colleagues, very good boss...
The Eugene Register-Guard has an opening for a sports copy editor. Our assistant sports editor, Steve Irvin, left the paper this week to become a labor relations adjudicator/mediator for the Washington State Public Employment Relations Division in Kirkland, Wash.
Steve went back to school to earn a master's degree in this field, and so this new job, in a highly competitive market, is a wonderful reward for all that hard work. However, he's been a standout member of our sports department for 13 years, and my colleague in management since shortly after I became sports editor seven years ago. To say that I will miss him -- his advice, his work ethic, his loyalty to our department, his grace under pressure -- is an understatement.
In addition to his management duties, Steve was a front-line copy editor. For right now, I'll assume the management chores he was performing, as best I can, but we have approval to hire a full-time sports copy editor to try to fill that void. Unfortunately, our budget is not likely to allow us to hire at the top of the scale; more likely, looking at someone to come in at roughly a second-year level, and keep in mind that we've had two rounds of newsroom-affecting layoffs here, last June and August.
The posting for this position is on the RG Web site (go to the very bottom, where there's a Jobs at the Register-Guard link, or simply enter this link: http://www2.registerguard.com/cms/images/uploads/107.html). Closing date is Feb. 1.
The Eugene Register-Guard has an opening for a sports copy editor. Our assistant sports editor, Steve Irvin, left the paper this week to become a labor relations adjudicator/mediator for the Washington State Public Employment Relations Division in Kirkland, Wash.
Steve went back to school to earn a master's degree in this field, and so this new job, in a highly competitive market, is a wonderful reward for all that hard work. However, he's been a standout member of our sports department for 13 years, and my colleague in management since shortly after I became sports editor seven years ago. To say that I will miss him -- his advice, his work ethic, his loyalty to our department, his grace under pressure -- is an understatement.
In addition to his management duties, Steve was a front-line copy editor. For right now, I'll assume the management chores he was performing, as best I can, but we have approval to hire a full-time sports copy editor to try to fill that void. Unfortunately, our budget is not likely to allow us to hire at the top of the scale; more likely, looking at someone to come in at roughly a second-year level, and keep in mind that we've had two rounds of newsroom-affecting layoffs here, last June and August.
The posting for this position is on the RG Web site (go to the very bottom, where there's a Jobs at the Register-Guard link, or simply enter this link: http://www2.registerguard.com/cms/images/uploads/107.html). Closing date is Feb. 1.
