Testy Copy Editors

Our new website is up and running at testycopyeditors.org. This board will be maintained as an archive. Please visit the new site and register. Direct questions to the proprietor, blanp@testycopyeditors.org
It is currently Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:56 am

View unanswered posts | View active topics


Board index » Talk Shop » Nightmare Jobs of the Week

All times are UTC - 5 hours




Forum locked This topic is locked, you cannot edit posts or make further replies.  Page 1 of 1
  [ 5 posts ] 
  Print view Previous topic | Next topic 
Author Message
Phillip Blanchard
 Post subject: We Want You, But Not Much Dept.
PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:55 am 
Offline

Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am
Posts: 8342
Location: Bethesda, Md.
The Merced Sun-Star, a McClatchy-owned daily in California’s Central Valley, has an opening for a copy editor/news designer to join the night copy desk. ... The Sun-Star has developed into a stepping stone newspaper within the company, with many reporters and copy editors moving on to larger McClatchy newspapers after first doing great work here. ... Sorry, no relocation is available for this position.

*** By which I think they mean they won't pay you to move there. So they're limiting the candidate pool to perhaps a 100-mile radius because who in their right mind would move across the country on her own dime to work there? ***[/b]
Top
 Profile E-mail  
 
trimtofit
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:39 am 
Offline

Joined: Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:46 pm
Posts: 583
Location: University of Kentucky
Peter Sanders' Cities Ranked and Rated placed Merced at No. 370 on a list of 373 cities nationwide for "quality of living," according to the Modesto (No. 373) Bee. Not that those lists mean anything, really. But it doesn't provide any added incentive to move there.
Top
 Profile E-mail  
 
larepublica
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:35 pm 
Offline

Joined: Fri Nov 28, 2003 1:01 am
Posts: 399
Location: Lesotho, where it does snow
On that list I'd probably invert the two towns, Modesto at least has a minor league (Class A) baseball team!
Top
 Profile  
 
Phillip Blanchard
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:45 pm 
Offline

Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am
Posts: 8342
Location: Bethesda, Md.
larepublica wrote:
On that list I'd probably invert the two towns, Modesto at least has a minor league (Class A) baseball team!


Now I'm embarrassed. Who wouldn't move across the country at her own expense for the chance to watch Class A?
Top
 Profile E-mail  
 
Heartodixie
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:49 am 
Offline

Joined: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:15 am
Posts: 1432
Location: Alabamer
On the other hand, think about all the un- and underemployed journalists within 200 miles of that place. I can see why someone might think there's plenty of talent within driving distance.

Though trying to avoid paying new hires to relocate is kind of a nickle-and-dimey approach to saving money in the grand scheme of things.
Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Forum locked This topic is locked, you cannot edit posts or make further replies.  Page 1 of 1
  [ 5 posts ] 

Board index » Talk Shop » Nightmare Jobs of the Week

All times are UTC - 5 hours


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 6 guests

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group

What They're Saying


"This is like group therapy with prisoners in the Poynter Institute's dungeon." ... "You take a vocation that the simple-minded consider to be mere drudgery, and you exploit every bit of fascinating and humorous nuance imaginable." ... "Delicious" ... "Ask your professors? The only professors whose opinions matter are named Walsh, Blanchard and McIntyre." ... "What I come here for, I can find ONLY here. Phillip, you've built a great place." ... "Nothing gets us hotter than reading bitchy discussion threads from over-exhausted copy editors endlessly debating the merits of "theater" versus "theatre." ... "I love this site. It's better than the Kool-Aid acid tests." ..."I'm awed at the efficiency with which matters of opinion get hashed out in this forum." ... "Phil is the bomb!" ... "I'd wager that it's exactly your sort of hidebound thinking that contributes to the problems newspapers are having attracting readers." ... "I'm totally obsessed with this site. It's like porn--if you get off on Scrabble." ... "It reveals the backstage carping and vindictive emotions that roil the souls of those trapped at the copy desks." "When they say "testy," they certainly mean it. Whether it's reporters, editors, or the general public, no one is above their savage snark." ... "An apparent crack in the thin grey line." ..."Testy Copy Editors is a bitchboard for journalism's underclass." ... "My desire to read 'Testy Copy Editors' is only rivalled by my desire to pop "Constipated Call Girls" in the DVD player." ... "Phillip Blanchard is not just a testy copy editor, but a prophet scorned in his own time, and those of us who defend wordplay will be punished for it come the Judgment Day." ... "Phil Blanchard is as dashing in person as he is at the TCE board." ... "As far as writing and editing go: Read this board, read Bill Walsh, memorize the style book, read William Zinsser, and read the New York Times. That's a good start." ... "You should let go of your bitterness. You were not the oppressed talent you thought yourself to be. You were a miserable, brooding, silent, joyless grind, lucky to have a job at the Sun-Times, and we're lucky now that you've moved on to afflict others."



Useful Links


Our 2003 ACES Handout
Our 2004 ACES Handout
Our 2005 ACES Handout
Our 2006 ACES Handout
Our 2009 ACES Handout
The Slot (Bill Walsh)
HeadsUp: The Blog
John McIntyre
Regret the Error
Banned for Life

TCE RSS Feed  [Valid RSS]