Sports Reporter/Editor- Ketchikan, AK

[Zads07]

From jjobs.com
http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=1540888

ompany: Ketchikan Daily News
Position:
Sports reporter/editor
Location:
Ketchikan, Alaska
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Not Specified
Ad Expires:
December 9, 2013
Job ID: 1540888

Description:

Sports reporter/editor in one-person department of family-owned newspaper. Cover high school, middle school and community basketball, baseball, football, soccer, volleyball, wrestling, cross country, track etc. in a small community with an outdoors lifestyle in the Tongass National Forest. Lay out sports pages. Journalism degree or sports reporting experience required. Benefits: Paid vacation, paid holidays, profit sharing/401k. Health/dental insurance optional. Send resume, clips and cover letter to: Tena Williams, Co-Publisher, Ketchikan Daily News, P.O. Box 7900, Ketchikan, Alaska, 99901, or [email protected]

Website: http://www.ketchikandailynews.com/

 

[playthrough]

Had a phone interview for this job when I was fresh out of college (roughly the middle of the Ice Age), sounded like a heck of an adventure.

 

[gravehunter]

Now this is in the middle of nowhere. It's in the southern part of the state, so the summers aren't too bad, but it's pretty remote. Great place if you like bonding with nature when not writing.

 

[I Should Coco]

My two cents on a unique job opportunity:

This position pops up from time to time ... probably because Ketchikan is so isolated. Planes or ferries are the only way in or out. It's a long, almost two-day ride over occasionally rough water from Bellingham, Wash. Oh, and it's one of the rainiest towns in the country.

That being said, it's a small, independently-owned paper that is run well. They do a good job covering anything and everything that happens in their corner of southeast Alaska. Especially high school basketball, which is huge in the region.

Ketchikan Daily News is a way better daily paper than Juneau's, despite the latter being in a bigger town (and the state capital).

If I was younger, I'd apply for this in a heartbeat ... but do your homework on what it's like to live in Ketchikan. If you enjoy hiking, fishing, the outdoors, it's a rainforest paradise.

 

[jankaj]

Hello all,

I'm the outgoing Sports Editor at the Ketchikan Daily News, and I Should Coco nailed it on the head.
I've been at the post for nearly two years, and decided to leave because a better opportunity presented itself. I have nothing but positive things to say about my experience working at the paper. The rest of the newsroom is easy to work with and full of bright, young journalists who — like me — sought the Alaska adventure early in our careers.
It does rain a lot, sometimes four or five inches in a day. The athletes are used to it, so invest in some high quality raingear, because the games will go on.
All in all, I'd say this is an excellent first daily job as well as a great position for anyone looking for a new adventure/experience.
Feel free to message me directly with any other questions regarding the job/Ketchikan.

AJ

 

[Zads07]

Reposted today, January 7
From jjobs.com
http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=1555567

Company: Ketchikan Daily News
Position:
Sports reporter/editor
Location:
Ketchikan, Alaska
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Not Specified
Ad Expires:
February 11, 2014
Job ID: 1555567

Description:

Sports reporter/editor in one-person department of family-owned daily newspaper. Cover high school, middle school and community basketball, baseball, football, soccer, volleyball, wrestling, cross country, track etc. in a small community with an outdoors lifestyle in the Tongass National Forest. Also lay out sports pages. Journalism degree or sports reporting experience required. Benefits: Paid vacation, paid holidays, profit sharing/401k. Health/dental insurance optional. Send resume, clips and cover letter to: Tena Williams, Co-Publisher, Ketchikan Daily News, P.O. Box 7900, Ketchikan, Alaska, 99901. [email protected].

 

[alexshoemaker]

No offense to anyone in or from Alaska, but you've gotta be pretty desperate to travel their for work

 

[jr/shotglass]

It was minus-1 here this morning. I might as well.

 

[Zads07]

It was minus-1 here this morning. I might as well.

It was -14 in Michigan last night.

 

[One Man Wolfpack]

No offense to anyone in or from Alaska, but you've gotta be pretty desperate to travel their for work

Says the (unemployed?) guy who misuses the word their

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

It was minus-1 here this morning. I might as well.

It was -14 in Michigan last night.

It was warmer there than in Michigan last night.

 

[RonClements]

It was minus-1 here this morning. I might as well.

It was -14 in Michigan last night.

It was warmer there than in Michigan last night.

So -1 is warmer than -14? Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Mark2010]

Ketchikan is on the southern peninsula, so the weather is a lot milder than, say, Fairbanks. As of a few years ago, the only way in or out was by boat or plane, no roads. Don't know if that has changed.

I would go to Alaska to cover the Iditarod and off-beat stuff like that. But just to cover the high schools? I can get that just about anywhere.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Wow, that's funky. I just looked it up in Google Maps.

Mark, that still appears to be the case, that there's no roads in or out. There is a "highway" that goes out of town on each side, but it eventually peters out into a dead end on each side as it goes northward.

 

[deskslave]

Fairly normal for Alaska, I believe. Juneau, which is of course the state capital, is the same way.

 

[bmereness]

reposted

 

[FusilliJerry]

Anyone know who got this one?