An insider hire in Decatur and other TPA tidbits

 I had heard the Wise County Messenger would be looking for a new ME as Richard Greene was moving on. Apparently they already have one, as on editorial flag box thumbnail photos, Austin Jackson has "editor" under his name. Interestingly, having eyeballed TPA's job bank after I heard of the potential vacancy, I saw no ad. I saw none in their print paper, either. And, after that, taking a look, I saw none on Journalism Jobs, either. 

Now, the EEOC does not require you to advertise every job. It's still interesting, though.

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I saw Keith Domke is new editor in Brenham. That means old acquaintance-not-really-friend Jason Chlapek has wandered on again after little more than a year. He's now "general manager" at Fairfield and Teague. Jason said long ago that he wanted to be a publisher some day, and GM is closer on the title hunt. Can't believe it's more pay, though. That area is not THAT much better economically than Marlin of days past. And, per TPA's directory, it's two weeklies with combined circ of 2,220 and change, while Brenham was still triweekly in print with circ of 3,700.

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Enola Gay Mathews has ditched the radio station in Sulphur Springs and is at the News-Telegram now.

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Meanwhile, Texas newspapers want to hire. They don't want to pay. New Braunfels, for example. Wants an ME for its monthly mag who will also be an AME for its paper. $38-42K. If it had been on salary, Fort Bend was offering $30K a year, a dozen years ago, at a paper 2/3 the size, on today's circ, of New Braunfels.

Another CNHI fail in Gainesville

On Tuesday, the Gainesville (Tex-ass) Register ran an op-ed column by Jim Zachary, editor of The Valdosta Daily Times and also CNHI's director of newsroom training.

End of the first column of the print version, we have:

How many children and their parents can't hardly wait until the honor rolls are published so they can cut the page out of the paper and paste it into a scrapbook?

True today?

No. School districts have websites and Facebook pages and parents can print them out or do screengrabs on their smartphones or whatever.

Sad but true.

But, that's not the big fail.

The big fail is that I don't think I've seen a Gainesville ISD honor roll in the Register in 3 and 1/2 years.

Bet Jim Zachary's Valdosta Times doesn't have them either.

Then there's this:

Speaking of advertisements, which stores have sales promotions? Where can you get the best deals? Check out the ads in the paper.

Erm, Jim, the Register runs the CNHI/RSA semi-house ads for golfing in Bama more than it does any single local ad.