If you're going to advertise for a job, then actually fill the job.
Take the Lake Powell Chronicle of Page, Arizona. A decent sized weekly. Six months ago, its editor-publisher left. Position was advertised on Journalism Jobs.
Senior editorial staffer was the sports writer, who said in a column that he barely knew pagination.
Well, six months later, he's the editor, but not the publisher. The paper has no publisher listed, and instead hired some sort of paginator-designer person.
You leave yourself open to scrutiny in other ways. If the budget is that tight, shouldn't you have seen that before advertising for a replacement editor-publisher? If you did, you look deceitful. If you didn't see that before, you look borderline incompetent.
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