Two exceptional opportunities in Baltimore

[Moderator1]

No lie. Great jobs. Big, fat gold Moddy Seal.

Baltimore needs an Orioles writer and a content editor. One of the Ravens' writers (Jamison Hensley) left for ESPN and the Sun moved its lead baseball guy over (Jeff Zrebiec, who is excellent). It also lost a content editor (Kevin Eck) to WWE.

So email Ron Fritz (one of my favorite people in addition to being a first-class SE) at [email protected]. You can thank me later. You can even buy me a very expensive dinner, since you'll be close enough once you move.

Seriously, great gigs here. Get on 'em.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

It's Tribune Company... What could go wrong? :D

 

[WriteThinking]

Moddy was talking about the jobs, not the company. Whose first thought when they're applying for a job is, "What company owns the paper?"

If people want a job, these two would be good ones.

 

[writingump]

Big. Boy. Jobs.

 

[Moderator1]

what could go wrong is the same that could go wrong at just about any paper - all in this business know that. There's a leap of faith involved with just about any joint now. Duh? You go in with your eyes open to ANY job right now. These two, as my pal the writing gump (long story, I know it is NOT writing gump) noted, are the real deal.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

They're both great jobs. It's a great paper.

 

[steveu]

Granted, we don't know what will happen, but it appears Tribune's been through its share of **** already. Two nice jobs... paper's a wee bit too small for my tastes and as big a city as Baltimore, but Orioles is definitely a prime beat.

 

[imjustagirl]

Too bad I bought a house. Mmmmmm crab cakes.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Too bad I bought a house. Mmmmmm crab cakes.

Unless you're a seamhead or too young to know better, covering baseball is brutal.

 

[MileHigh]

Too bad I bought a house. Mmmmmm crab cakes.

Unless you're a seamhead or too young to know better, covering baseball is brutal.

I suspect she was eyeballing the other job.

 

[CarlSpackler]

If the quality of Orioles writers is anything like the quality of the players, I've got a chance...

 

[playthrough]

Too bad I bought a house. Mmmmmm crab cakes.

Unless you're a seamhead or too young to know better, covering baseball is brutal.

Though with this job you shouldn't have to worry about those pesky postseasons anytime soon.

 

[imjustagirl]

Yeah, I have no interest in covering baseball. Editing content? That I can do. And I'll tell you this, having moved online and into a business where I'm literally surrounded by sales and marketing and ad ops people ... I miss the hell out of an actual newsroom.

 

[GarrettWampler]

Too bad I bought a house. Mmmmmm crab cakes.

Unless you're a seamhead or too young to know better, covering baseball is brutal.

For us young guns out here can you elaborate on how brutal covering a pro baseball beat is? I've covered a few pro games this year, not on a beat, but I haven't lost that "wow" factor yet.

 

[Stitch]

Too bad I bought a house. Mmmmmm crab cakes.

Unless you're a seamhead or too young to know better, covering baseball is brutal.

For us young guns out here can you elaborate on how brutal covering a pro baseball beat is? I've covered a few pro games this year, not on a beat, but I haven't lost that "wow" factor yet.

A 162-game regular season, plus spring training, and that's just for starters. You're not just showing up an hour before first pitch, either. Plus, the food will kill you.

 

[GarrettWampler]

Too bad I bought a house. Mmmmmm crab cakes.

Unless you're a seamhead or too young to know better, covering baseball is brutal.

For us young guns out here can you elaborate on how brutal covering a pro baseball beat is? I've covered a few pro games this year, not on a beat, but I haven't lost that "wow" factor yet.

A 162-game regular season, plus spring training, and that's just for starters. You're not just showing up an hour before first pitch, either. Plus, the food will kill you.

So basically my wife would divorce me well before the all-star break...

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Too bad I bought a house. Mmmmmm crab cakes.

Unless you're a seamhead or too young to know better, covering baseball is brutal.

For us young guns out here can you elaborate on how brutal covering a pro baseball beat is? I've covered a few pro games this year, not on a beat, but I haven't lost that "wow" factor yet.

A 162-game regular season, plus spring training, and that's just for starters. You're not just showing up an hour before first pitch, either. Plus, the food will kill you.

Nobody actually does 162 games, right? The papers that travel have backup/sidebar writers and/or bag trips on the other coast.

 

[wicked]

I'd say primary beat folks do at least 140.

They get far fewer off-days than the players.

And I wish I had a prayer in hell of getting the content editor job. No dice.

 

[1HPGrad]

Varies. Some hand off one long road trip. At my stops, beat guy preferred being on the road and handing off a few home games. Course, beat guy still showed up for those home games.

 

[Liut]

Big. Boy. Jobs.

Thanks for the insight.