Note: Every Wednesday, Scooping the News identifies five job openings at U.S. newspapers. This information demonstrates that newspaper jobs still exist despite all the layoffs, and we focus on jobs in editing, reporting, designing and photography.
Here are the five U.S. newspaper job openings we decided to highlight this week:
1. The Killeen Daily Herald in Texas seeks a sports reporter. The job listing states, "The Killeen Daily Herald, a growing 20,000/25,000 circulation daily in the beautiful Central Texas Hill Country, is seeking a sports writer to join an energetic staff that covers five major high schools plus peripheral teams, small university and minor league baseball and hockey nearby. The KDH sports staff also fuels content for a thriving sports Web site with coverage reaching readers/viewers around the globe because of the paper´s location next to the largest military base in the free world, Fort Hood. This is the perfect opportunity for a writer at a small daily or a weekly who is looking to move up."
2. The Amarillo Globe-News in Texas seeks a copy editor. The job listing states, "The Amarillo Globe-News, a Morris Communication newspaper in the Texas
3. The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., seeks a full-time blog editor. The job listing states, "The Hill newspaper seeks a hard working blogger/blog editor to join its expanding online staff. The successful applicant will be an enthusiast for multi-media journalism willing to work long and irregular hours. The job includes reporting and writing, plus administrative tasks, directing interns and coordinating projects with online editors. Some political reporting experience is necessary and a working knowledge of Congress would be a strong advantage, but most important is a genuine interest in news, an appetite for current affairs and an instinct for keeping up with the buzz in federal politics."
4. The Wichita Eagle in Kansas seeks a Web editor to lead its interactive efforts. The job listing states, "The Wichita Eagle is looking for an innovative and energetic Web editor to lead our interactive efforts, not just on our six-person online staff, but across a newsroom that is fast becoming a Web-first, multimedia news operation. You’ll find lots of momentum and enthusiasm here, and we’re seeking a collaborative leader to help lead, direct, coach, evangelize and innovate with us. We’re the dominant news site in our market and our state, and our next interactive leader will help us choose the best path and priorities to continue capitalizing on our superior market strength. The deputy editor is a member of the newsroom’s senior leadership team. He or she works closely with the editor to set strategy and priorities for online content, and collaborates with the publisher and advertising leaders to build our business. The deputy editor must be a strong communicator who is highly organized and able to manage multiple projects at once, across divisions of the company. We’re moving with urgency to transform our organization, and our next digital team leader will be at the forefront of our charge."
5. The Roswell Daily Record in New Mexico seeks two reporters. The job listing states, "The Roswell Daily Record in sunny New Mexico is looking for two general assignment reporters who can write about topics ranging from hard news to light features and everything in between. We’re a family-owned, community-oriented, award-winning daily in southeastern New Mexico with a circulation of about 11,000. We are searching for hungry entry-level reporters looking to break into the competitive world of journalism."
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