A quick roundup of papers looking to hire
A lot of blog readers lost their jobs this week.
I’d give anything to be able to help. Unfortunately, all I can do is empathize.
My own job was hacked five months ago. Luckily, the Pilot gave me another job — a lesser position — which helped out both me and the paper. And that makes me much, much luckier than many folks.
It’s important to stay enthusiastic and positive and to project confidence. If you learn how to pull this off, please call and tell me how to do it.
Having said all that: There are jobs out there. Not a lot of ‘em. But there are some. And a number of them look very, very interesting.
We pulled together this quick look last night in just an hour or so. Just think of what you’ll find when you’re looking for something specifically tailored to your talents.
Each link should pop up want ads in a new window.
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AME/Design for The San Jose Mercury News.
Photo editor/assistant department head for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver.
Sports news editor/designer for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
News designer for The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va.
Lead news designer for The State in Columbia, S.C.
Lead features/special sections designer for the Gatehouse Media chain in Downer’s Grove, Ill.
News designer for the Tulsa, Okla., World.
News designer for MarketWatch, based in San Franciso or New York.
Designer/editor for the Baltimore Sun’s new free daily, B.
Temporary designer for Newsweek in New York.
Page designer for the Albuquerque, N.M., Journal.
Page designer for the Hot Springs, Ark., Sentinel-Record.
Page designer for the Hammond, La., Daily Star.
Page designer for the Pampa, Texas, News.
Sports designer for The National, an English-language tab in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Copy desk/design chief for the Youngstown, Ohio, Vindicator.
Chief copy and presentation editor for the Peninsula Daily News in Washington state.
Designer/editor for the Concord, N.H., Monitor.
“Designer who can edit” for the Freedom New Mexico chain in Clovis, N.M.
Temporary copy editor/page designer for the Gannett News Service in McLean, Va.
Copy editor/page designer for the Tracy, Calif., Press.
Copy editor/page designer for the Beaver County Times in Beaver, Pa.
Copy editor/page designer for the Strasburg, Va., Northern Virginia Daily.
Copy editor/designer for the newly-redesigned Cheyenne, Wyo., Tribune-Eagle.
Copy editor/designer for the Panama City, Fla., News Herald.
Page designer/copy editor for the Anderson, S.C., Independent-Mail.
Page designer/copy editor for the Los Angeles Daily News in Woodland Hills, Calif.
Sports copy editor for Gannett’s central Wisconsin papers in Wausau.
Copy editor for the State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill.
Copy editor for the Denver Daily News in Vail, Colo.
Copy editor for the Stamford, Conn., Advocate.
Copy editor for The Tonawanda, N.Y. News
Copy editor for the Martinsville, Va., Bulletin.
Graphics reporter/artist for McClatchy-Tribune Graphics in Washington, D.C.
Graphic artist for the Charlottesville, Va., Daily Progress.
Photographer for the Carrollton, Ga., Times-Georgian.
Photographer for the Gallup, N.M. Independent.
Photographer for the Herald Times Reporter in Manitowoc, Wis.
Photojournalist for the Fairfield, Calif., Daily Republic.
Photojournalist at the Lorain, Ohio, Morning Journal.
Sports editor for the Wapakoneta, Ohio, Daily News.
(Yeah, yeah, I know. But the ad says you’d be doing design and shooting photos. And they specifically say you need to know Photoshop. So why not apply? It sounds like fun, in fact.)
Sports editor for the weekly Oconee Enterprise in Watkinsville, Ga.
One-person sports department for The Paper, a weekly in rural Hoschton, Ga., northeast of Atlanta.
Weekly editor in Bowman, North Dakota.
Editor for the weekly Connecticut Valley Spectator in Lebanon, N.H.
A number of “top newsroom positions” in the Sage Publishing chain in Wyoming.
Design intern for this summer for the Kalamazoo, Mich., Gazette. (Also seeking an intern for this fall as well.)
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So take heart. Update that resume, get it spell-checked and then edit it again. Make sure you have fresh stuff posted to your online gallery.
Most of all, though, don’t let yourself get down. That begins a cycle that is damn hard to break. So just don’t go there. Stay positive.
And let us know how you’re doing. You know how we love to post notices about job hires. Just think how great you’ll feel when you read about your new job here in the blog.
Best wishes, my friends.
