William M. Hartnett

Following up on Charles Apple’s list of newspaper job openings (link via Danny Sanchez), here are a few at the Houston Chronicle. The following message from Chornicle recruiter Diane Cowen comes courtesy of Chronicle reporter Terri Langford on NICAR-L:
Newspaper layoff and buyout stories continue to trickle out, but we at the Houston Chronicle are still [...]

I had a good chat about the digital future of local newspapers with Ryan Pitts of The Spokesman Review of Spokane yesterday after teaching a mapping class he attended. They’re looking for a developer to, among other things, help rebuild their site from the ground up with Ellington/Django. It sounds like an exciting opportunity to [...]

The title of this post comes from a line I was happy to see in a job listing for a municipal reporter at the Tribune-owned Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale. (This being South Florida, the full sentence actually is, “Spanish skills as well as knowledge of computer-assisted reporting are preferred.” Probably in that order.) As Ryan [...]

Still more hiring at The Palm Beach Post. We have an opening for a sports copy editor down here in South Florida. Here’s the listing at JournalismJobs.com:
We want a sports copy editor eager to work with writers to improve stories and who can write graceful and direct display type. We value energetic editors who can [...]

Have you noticed yet that we’re doing a bit of hiring at The Palm Beach Post? We have an opening for an online sports producer down here in South Florida. Here’s the listing at JournalismJobs.com:
We’re looking for a self-starter who can work in the highly competitive South Florida online sports market. Duties include:

posting and management [...]

We have a big job opening for an online editorial director down here in South Florida. With some of the things we already have in the works, this is going to be a very exciting job. Believe me. Here’s the listing at JournalismJobs.com:
Online Editorial Director: PalmBeachPost.com is seeking an innovative thinker and manager to oversee [...]

We have an opening for a news researcher down here in South Florida. (That’s a news researcher, not a lab researcher, despite what the picture shows. What can I say? I’m an unforgivably lazy image searcher.) The listing at JournalismJobs.com:
The Palm Beach Post has an opening for a News Researcher excited about journalism and information. [...]

UPDATE, September 2007: Sorry, but this job opening has been filled.
We have an opening for a radio reporter/producer down here in South Florida. This is an existing position that just opened up, and obtaining it would earn you the privilege of sitting in our little multimedia village, right next to the bearded one himself. The [...]

It seems like there is an uncommonly high number of computer-assisted job openings at newspapers these days. (And by “uncommonly high” I mean “more than one.” It is a relatively small field, after all.)
Gannett’s The Journal News of White Plains, New York, is looking for a full-time CAR specialist to “work as part of a [...]