Vikings beat at Pi Press open

[Chest Rockwell]

Job Title: Vikings beat reporter
Job Group: Professional
FLSA Non-Exempt
Department: Newsroom
Immediate Supervisor's Title: Senior Editor/Sports Mike Bass (x 5108)
Last Updated: July 6, 2010 2:34 PM
Position Summary:

Full-time reporter covering the Minnesota Vikings football team. Duties include but are not limited to breaking news, game stories, notebooks, features, enterprise, podcasts, blogs and social networking.
Major Functions: 1. Cover Vikings games and offseason while keeping an eye on the rest of the NFL and trend stories. 2. First and foremost, be first and accurate and professional with breaking news concerning the team. 3. Produce regular enterprise stories, making certain to help plan for graphics, photos, charts and other display elements. 4. Be creative, original and imaginative, producing work that is smart and unique in the marketplace. 5. Take initiative, showing ability to anticipate and plan ahead for coverage. 6. Maintain strong, regular communication with other reporters on and off the beat and with editors so that story ideas can be executed quickly and efficiently and there is no overlap. 7. Cooperate with twincities.com in providing breaking news coverage and other unique content, including blogs, social networking and podcasts. 8. Develop sources in and around the team and the league who can provide inside information on the Vikings. 9. Meet deadlines and assigned story lengths. 10. Contribute interpretation or analysis to facts and news events. 11. Work with only general supervision. 12 Conduct investigative interviews. 13. Have the ability to follow a story and develop it. 14. Use independent judgment and direction.
Education: The job requires an intense knowledge of the NFL and in most cases requires a four-year college degree.
Experience: In most cases, the job requires daily deadline experience covering professional or major college sports.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Mike Bass is still there? Un****ingbelievable.

 

[esport12]

Who left?

 

[da man]

Mike Bass is still there? Un****ingbelievable.

Elaborate, please.

 

[Small Town Guy]

Rick Alonzo is leaving. His wife got a good job in Florida and they're moving there.

 

[MileHigh]

Pretty tough less than a month before the start of training camp.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Job is a major springboard. Led to gigs at The Denver Post and later ESPN and the Chicago Sun-Times.

 

[Bishop Don Magic Juan]

Homeboy got an e-mail address or sumthin'?

 

[Stitch]

Homeboy got an e-mail address or sumthin'?

It took me two minutes to find it on the Pioneer Press website. I guess that eliminates you for the job.

 

[Joe Williams]

Job is a major springboard. Led to gigs at The Denver Post and later ESPN and the Chicago Sun-Times.

The Titanic was a major springboard into whatever lifeboats were available. Especially for that damn Billy Zane.

 

[alanpagerules]

Well, I've looked on their site and haven't seen the opening. Anyone know where it really is posted?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Job is a major springboard. Led to gigs at The Denver Post and later ESPN and the Chicago Sun-Times.

The Titanic was a major springboard into whatever lifeboats were available. Especially for that damn Billy Zane.

Well, Bill Williamson and Sean Jensen have done quite well after the Pioneer Press.

 

[Moderator1]

From The Pipeline, this one is down and Orlando is down another writer:

Jeremy Fowler is leaving UF beat to cover the the Vikings for St. Paul.

 

[MonsterLobster]

From The Pipeline, this one is down and Orlando is down another writer:

Jeremy Fowler is leaving UF beat to cover the the Vikings for St. Paul.

Do you think Mike McCarthy will flip if any of the Packers receivers say they're glad Favre is gone and they now get to play with a "real" quarterback?

 

[MileHigh]

Worked with Jeremy during my South Florida days. Congrats to him.

 

[dkphxf]

If this is true, how does the Sentinel plan to handle the UF beat that Jeremy's leaving?

 

[Moderator1]

A. It is true. No ifs.
B. They'll figure something out in the interim and make a hire soon. Plenty of capable people there.

 

[Fran Curci]

I wonder if covering the Vikings for the limping Pioneer Press is that much of a step up from covering the Gators for the O-Sentinel.

 

[Joe Williams]

I wonder if covering the Vikings for the limping Pioneer Press is that much of a step up from covering the Gators for the O-Sentinel.

Got to think that even the limping Pioneer Press knows by this point that it will be used as a springboard to -- who knows, but something beyond its dead-tree sports pages. Seems a matter of getting in, using the experience and padding the resume, and then moving on.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I wonder if covering the Vikings for the limping Pioneer Press is that much of a step up from covering the Gators for the O-Sentinel.

Got to think that even the limping Pioneer Press knows by this point that it will be used as a springboard to -- who knows, but something beyond its dead-tree sports pages. Seems a matter of getting in, using the experience and padding the resume, and then moving on.

It's a huge step up.