Sports Editor, Press Enterprise, Bloomsburg, PA.

[RedHotChiliPrepper]

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Company: Press Enterprise
Position:
Lead Award-Winning Sports Department
Location:
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Job Status:  Full-time
Salary:  Negotiable
Ad Expires: 
August 24, 2006
Job ID: 325700
Website: http://pressenterpriseonline.com

Description:
The Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg PA seeks editor with strong background in news or sports to lead a sports section twice honored by Associated Press Sports Editors as one of the 10 best in the nation under 40,000 (2003 and 2006). We are a 21,500, seven-day AM, long recognized as one of the best small papers in Pennsylvania. We consider strong sports coverage integral to our success. We offer a salary that goes far in our relatively low-cost corner of eastern Pennsylvania, just two hours from Philly, three from NY. Rush cover letter, resume, writing and layout samples to:

Jim Sachetti Editor Press Enterprise 3185 Lackawanna Ave. Bloomsburg, PA 17815 [email protected]

 

[Trey Beamon]

Nice gig..surely one of the best "small" papers in the state.

 

[The Duke]

what happened to Matt Traub?
He was a solid editor.

 

[PressRowHack]

Definitely a good paper. I've seen this one many times. They do a good job with preps, cover the hell out of Bloom U (obviously) and their Bloom U football writer is really good.

They cover three of the best football programs in high school in the entire state too. From what I've seen of them (picked this paper up a handful of times looking for info on the HS teams they cover), they easily smash the competition.

 

[shotglass]

Berwick football.

Do you really need to say more?

Berwick football. ;D

 

[YerkillinmePetey]

what happened to Matt Traub?
He was a solid editor.

Matt headed to Columbia, S.C., to take a designer position at The State.

 

[RedHotChiliPrepper]

Berwick football.

Do you really need to say more?

Berwick football.  ;D

Actually, Berwick football's headed to the crapper. The new craze is Southern Columbia football, especially when they break Berwick's record for consecutive state titles this year.

And don't forget Mount Carmel.

 

[PressRowHack]

Berwick football.

Do you really need to say more?

Berwick football. ;D

Actually, Berwick football's headed to the crapper. The new craze is Southern Columbia football, especially when they break Berwick's record for consecutive state titles this year.

And don't forget Mount Carmel.

That's the point, it's a great prep football area and they do a very good job with Bloomsburg U (and Bloom has a stud RB too)....I think they do some stuff with a few of the minor league teams once in a while too, I believe they have a stringer for the AHL Pittsburgh affiliate.

From what I could gather their area isn't that competitive, I guess a paper from Hazelton competes with them for some stuff and there is the paper in the Selinsgrove area too, but the PE is better than either one.

 

[The Duke]

George Curry is no longer there.
Berwick football is not such a draw

 

[whome19]

I am from the Coal Region and I was wondering if anyone had any insight on why all the openings in the last year. I understand Matt Traub leaving Bloomsburg, but what happened in Sunbury and Shamokin? I remember hearing about a pagination job in Sunbury and didn't two leave from Shamokin? Whatever happened to those two guys and who took their place? And yes, Bloomsburg has a very nice product.

 

[Keystone]

I am from the Coal Region and I was wondering if anyone had any insight on why all the openings in the last year. I understand Matt Traub leaving Bloomsburg, but what happened in Sunbury and Shamokin? I remember hearing about a pagination job in Sunbury and didn't two leave from Shamokin? Whatever happened to those two guys and who took their place? And yes, Bloomsburg has a very nice product.

Don't know who filled the Sunbury pagination job, but the guy who was supposed to take it wasn't able to start after somebody read his blog. Apparently, he wasn't too nice to his previous boss.

At Shamokin, the former SE, Chris Nagy, moved over to news. Charlie Roth from Pottsville, an all-around good guy, was brought in as the old/new SE. I know another writer was hired and the other position is still in the air (from what I've been told). The writer who was in the second writer slot moved back to Pottsville as the two Times-Shamrock properties made a "trade."

As for the PE, Matt will be a tough act to follow. The person who will be taking will have to deal with some of the more fanatical prep football fans in the state with Berwick, Southern Columbia, Mount Carmel and Shamokin in the coverage area. Berwick's Bulldog nation will be in for a rough ride until the new coach rights the ship.

Somebody asked about competition: The paper has no competition in its backyard -- Bloomsburg U. Bloomsburg High and Central Columbia -- but the coverage areas of outside papers overlap in different parts of Columbia and Montour counties. Berwick is also covered by the two Wilkes-Barre papers; Danville has its own paper, which is owned by Sunbury; Southern Columbia is covered hard by the Shamokin and Sunbury papers; while Mount Carmel and Shamokin are the home base of the News-Item.

 

[qwertyuiop]

I am from the Coal Region and I was wondering if anyone had any insight on why all the openings in the last year. I understand Matt Traub leaving Bloomsburg, but what happened in Sunbury and Shamokin? I remember hearing about a pagination job in Sunbury and didn't two leave from Shamokin? Whatever happened to those two guys and who took their place? And yes, Bloomsburg has a very nice product.

I think Sunbury still has that pagination job open, i didn't hear any different. As for the two who left Shamokin, I don't know what the one is doing, but the other, Tom Fox, is back in Lock Haven as sports editor. And Keystone did a nice job of describing what has happened in Shamokin.

 

[Minotauro]

We offer a salary that goes far in our relatively low-cost corner of eastern Pennsylvania, just two hours from Philly, three from NY. Rush cover letter, resume, writing and layout samples to:

Jim Sachetti Editor Press Enterprise 3185 Lackawanna Ave. Bloomsburg, PA 17815 [email protected]

What kind of salary do you think is reasonable? $40k? Say for an in-state candidate with five years newspaper experience, including two seasons as Div I-AA football beat writer, one season Div I men's basketball beat writer and a couple years as lead designer at a 70k?

 

[Rhody31]

We offer a salary that goes far in our relatively low-cost corner of eastern Pennsylvania, just two hours from Philly, three from NY. Rush cover letter, resume, writing and layout samples to:

Jim Sachetti Editor Press Enterprise 3185 Lackawanna Ave. Bloomsburg, PA 17815 [email protected]

What kind of salary do you think is reasonable? $40k? Say for an in-state candidate with five years newspaper experience, including two seasons as Div I-AA football beat writer, one season Div I men's basketball beat writer and a couple years as lead designer at a 70k?

I worked at the Press for 18 months. As a single guy, I made 22k and was living very comfortably. Houses in the area are amazingly cheap if you're looking to buy. The only downside to the area was lack of stuff to do, which meant a lot of drinking and golf.

 

[The Duke]

There is one hell of a fair in Bloomsburg!

 

[Hoop Time]

I would echo a lot of this thread. It is a very solid paper and has always been a good sports section.

As for some of the other stuff -- the Shamokin situation was a mess. At least one of the guys who left there was a victim of his own ambition. He wanted to do a good job, they were content with mediocre and not willing to pay for more. As for the blog stuff, there is probably a lesson there for a lot of folks.

Sunbury has been pretty stable since Housenick took over. The designer job is the first I have heard of in sports there for a while. Housenick has really improved that section, in part because his arrival coincided with a new publisher who had a better attitude about what they should cover.

IF I were a young guy who could afford to live on what papers that size can afford to pay, I'd go after this one myself. It is a very decent gig.

 

[RedHotChiliPrepper]

There is one hell of a fair in Bloomsburg!

The fair is a fantastic thing as long as you can stand the traffic in town for a week. Vince's cheesesteaks are the best.

Another selling point would be springs and late summers in a college town where the women make up about 65% of the students on the campus of Bloom. U.

 

[shotglass]

The fair is a very good thing.

Don't know if I'd feel the same way if I lived on the back end of Bloomsburg, but man ...

 

[wickedwritah]

Jim Sachetti knows his stuff. A lot of the news folks there have gone on to much bigger and better things. I was impressed with their operation when I went in for an interview for a news reporter position last year. And it is a family owned paper, if anyone keeps track of such things.

I believe they also are hard on NASCAR when it is at Pocono, given that Mr. Excitement, James Spencer, hails from Berwick.

Don't know what, if anything, they do with Penn State, which is maybe 90 minutes down I-80.

As for the blogger in question ... didn't realize he'd bailed for Sunbury, then had the door slammed shut on him.

 

[Hoop Time]

Not sure if they still do, but the P-E used to use Neil Rudel for Penn State. WHile that sucked for staffers who aspire to cover the Nits, it was a winning situation for the readers since Rudel is one of the best on the beat.