Do It All!

Phillip Blanchard · **Posted:** Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:46 pm

Family-owned, Southwestern Colorado newspaper group seeks an energetic news leader to continue the strong emphasis on community coverage at one of our weekly publications. We seek someone with a college degree, newsroom experience, strong grammar, punctuation and style skills, page-design experience and familiarity with InDesign, minimal need for supervision and editing, and dedication to producing an interesting, relevant community paper. A love for small-town life is essential.

The Star is a one-person newsroom and an important influence in the community. (JournalismJobs.com)

Bumfketeer · **Posted:** Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:12 pm

It's staggering to think of the influence a one-person newsroom can have on the community. That kind of influence can probably enable you to get your wife a gig at the local opera house, too.

Tom Berger · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:41 am

I'm not clear on how you can be a leader in a one-person newsroom. If you shout out an order, you'll just have to follow it yourself. Or fire yourself for insubordination, maybe.

Editer · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:53 am

But you're always Newsroom Employee of the Month!

Heartodixie · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:54 pm

Think about all the bureaucratic bullshit you have to deal with for a minute. Snooping around by yourself and slapping together the headlines each week doesn't sound like all that bad a gig.

(I did something like that once. Oh, the good work I could have done had I not been so focused on getting out of there and onto a "real" newspaper.)

gdcfa · **Posted:** Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:26 pm

Heartodixie wrote:

Think about all the bureaucratic bullshit you have to deal with for a minute. Snooping around by yourself and slapping together the headlines each week doesn't sound like all that bad a gig.

OK, I'll take that minute...

(5 seconds pass...)

Couldn't make it to 60 seconds. When I think back on the years spent in one-person newsrooms, I shudder. My colleagues since then have not always been the best in the business, but I have had many occasions to thank them personally for catching my errors. Everyone, and I mean everyone, needs a copy editor.

Agreed, I don't long for the bureaucratic bullshit that goes along with chain ownership, or even just the heirarchy within a single paper, but I would not trade it for a solo gig again.

Heartodixie · **Posted:** Sat Nov 07, 2009 4:00 pm

gdcfa wrote:

Heartodixie wrote:

Think about all the bureaucratic bullshit you have to deal with for a minute. Snooping around by yourself and slapping together the headlines each week doesn't sound like all that bad a gig.

OK, I'll take that minute...

(5 seconds pass...)

Couldn't make it to 60 seconds. When I think back on the years spent in one-person newsrooms, I shudder. My colleagues since then have not always been the best in the business, but I have had many occasions to thank them personally for catching my errors. Everyone, and I mean everyone, needs a copy editor.

Agreed, I don't long for the bureaucratic bullshit that goes along with chain ownership, or even just the heirarchy within a single paper, but I would not trade it for a solo gig again.

It is terrifying working without a safety net, but seems to me there never was much of one even at the biggest small papers I worked at. Redundancy's so 20th century.

Bumfketeer · **Posted:** Sat Nov 07, 2009 5:32 pm

Hearto, I work at a midsize paper (100,000) and we have no "safety net" now. One read. That's the wave of the future for sure, and the reality of the present at a lot of places.

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