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Specified
Salary: $25,000 to
$30,000
Website:
http://www.daily-times.com
Grow West!
The Daily Times, the largest media entity in the Four Corners region
serving readers in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and the Navajo
Nation, has two openings for a copy editor/page designer who also has a
passion for multimedia work and special projects. PREVIOUS APPLICANTS
ARE ENCOURAGED TO REAPPLY as we have made a few minor changes in the
job description and expectations, as well as the pay for those with
experience.
Duties and needs include page design, meeting deadlines, nightly online
responsibilities in coordination with our online editor, pagination on
QuarkExpress, good copy editing skills and excellent news judgment.
Everyone is growing a digital strategy, so obviously you must fit into
that here as well and be able to have fun with it.
The hire will be someone with a focus on ambitious goals grounded in
both, excellent journalism and multimedia platforms for delivery of it.
We have a lot of great talent here, and we're looking to add to the
team. Don't apply unless you have a passion for this kind of work, an
understanding of the great Southwest and an excellent work ethic. If
you like good journalism, the Southwest climate, diverse culture and
the outdoors, you'll love this place. If you're looking for the nearest
Macy's, keep looking.
Now for our standing ad:
We seek solid candidates looking to experience lively action at a
daily/digital newsroom that is the largest media entity in the Four
Corners region, serving readers in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona
and the Navajo Nation.
We seek journalists hungry to go beyond the norm, someone who wants to
dig to find out why domestic violence rates are higher on an American
Indian reservation, or why there are those who are biased in an
American Indian border town, or why folks in Aztec believe in UFOs, or
why people desperate for help can't get it to their remote ranch with
911. Good photography opportunities also exist with all of these
fascinating stories.
We deal with the FBI, a progressive local police unit fighting gangs,
and we deal with the local sheriff in a land where outlaws still try to
hide and cowboys still ride horses to work. The journalism potential is
unlimited for those who have a solid work ethic and a drive to do
stories far beyond the norm.
A documentary film team was here in 2007 to interview us about our
newspaper's powerful influence on local racial/cultural issues. Steven
Spielberg was sitting on a movie-rights option with a story about Kit
Carson and the massive Navajo Nation based in our back yard. Here,
yesterday and today are a living link, and the outdoors adventure life
is the world's greatest.
Throw in a passion for journalism, and this place rocks! (Pardon the
outdoors pun.)
We've won several national awards and fellowships, including from
Columbia University where we were asked to speak in New York in 2008
about our investigative and diversity coverage. Ditto in Chicago,
Boston and in various other large forums. Our staff eagerly applies for
and earns fellowships for advanced training. We also won an Inland
Press national award in 2008 for a profile story of Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez, reported in Venezuela, after talking with him
about connections between his oil fields and ours here in the Four
Corners. Our editor won the 2009 Robert G. McGruder Award, the nation's
highest newspaper honor for diversity leadership and combating racism.
And, we won the 2010 Public Service Award ahead of all other dailies in
New Mexico, our second such award in three years.
We just won another national honor after APME announced we've won the
2011 Internationational Perspective Award for local perspective of
international interests. Our project, "Navajo Nation, Navajo World,"
focused on the promised advent of wireless telecom on the Navajo Nation
and how it can connect the remote tribe to ports and countries around
the world.
We've convinced a former CIA/FBI agent to work with us on special
investigative pieces by teaming with our best reporters.
We're a small, cozy newsroom, that likes to think big.
No, we don't have a dime to spend. We're just creative in finding one.
That's why we're patient in our hiring and hunt ambitious, talented and
opportunity-seeking journalists.
Wimps need not apply. We go after racial bigots and closed-minded
governments, and the battle often gets fierce. The rewards, however,
are tremendous. Keep reading...
Imagine life right in the middle of a western novel: The magnificent
Rocky Mountains within view and only an hour to the north. The colorful
Navajo Nation only minutes to the west. High desert landscape with
endless scenic views and spectacular sunsets right here in town. And,
at an altitude higher than the mile-high city of Denver, the weather
here is great, with sunshine year-round, cool summer breezes, dry temps
and fairly mild winters.
Add to that: the annual Connie Mack World Series for baseball nuts
wanting to see the nation's best pro and college prospects; the
national high school rodeo championships; colorful American Indian
festivals; hot air balloon festivals; some of the best fly fishing in
the world; a ski resort an hour away; one of the most modern public
libraries in the nation; an awesome indoor aquatic center that has
hosted Olympic prelims; the recently ranked No. 1 public golf course in
the U.S.; great whitewater rafting and...well...you get the picture.
Farmington, spurred by active oil-and-gas industry, is the commerce
center for the Four Corners region, tucked in the northwest corner of
New Mexico and only an hour south of the Colorado resorts in Durango.
We also serve readers in Arizona and Utah, making us the chief media
source for the entire Four Corners region. Furthermore, we know good
journalism, we have exciting goals and we aim to become one of the best
community newspapers in the nation. We preach local first, and we're
darn serious about our goals for quality journalism across the board.
That is one reason we will continue our search until we find the right
candidates. We work hard; we play hard. We have many
expectations, and we are placing the bar high. Want to join
us?
DEADLINE:
11/08/11