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Company:	Silver City Sun-News
Position:	Reporter
Location:	New Mexico
Job Status:	Full-time
Ad Expires:	August 13, 2012
Job ID:	1378081

Description:
Friendly, hard-working, upbeat team player wanted.

We’re seeking a news reporter at the Silver City Sun-News in the high country of southwest New Mexico.

As part of a three-person bureau, you’ll do a little bit of everything here - from cops and courts, to government meetings, to covering some of the region’s many weekend events.

We’re a small town (10,000 pop.) but we break big news. We’ve got murders and fires, lost hikers and SWAT stand offs. We are also home to the internationally known Tour of the Gila, an annual bicycle race that brought Lance Armstrong to our community two years in a row, an annual blues fest that draws more than 5,000 visitors from across the region, and a host of other arts-related events.

You’ll work closely with the local bureau chief to plan, write and shoot nearly all local content in this seven-day daily zoned edition of the Las Cruces Sun-News.

You’ll work hard, but you’ll have fun doing it. We compete with a five- day daily and two websites, yet we are the only news source that consistently covers crime, courts and breaking news on every available platform. You’ll break news via Twitter and Facebook, and our website, and follow those up for our print edition.

Silver City is a great place to live, and in your down time, a great location from which to explore the Southwest. We’re a tourist/ mountain/arts town with enough going on to keep you busy, both during and after work. We’re known for our four gentle seasons, our historic Main Street (Travel and Leisure May 2012), shortest commute (NM Business Weekly 2012) and 11 Great Places You’ve (Maybe) Never Heard Of (Mother Earth News 2009). The people are friendly, the weather great, and if you like the outdoors, the 3.3 million-acre Gila National Forest is our backyard.

We are a two-hour drive from the nearest mall, however, so if shopping is what brings you happiness, you might not find this town a good fit. But we’ve got your basic needs covered with everything from Walmart to mom-pop shops, and enough arts and cultural events to entertain you outside of the office. For a taste of big city life, Tucson, Ariz., is a short three-hour drive away.

Bring your energy and enthusiasm, ability to take direction with ease, write clean, error-free copy on deadline, and work with minimal supervision.

Journalism or related degree required.

Read us online at www.scsun-news.com, on Facebook (SilverCity Sun- News) and follow us on Twitter (@SCSunNews) to get a feel for our market and our paper.

Then send your résumé and a cover letter telling us why you think you’d be a good fit for our paper and why you want to make Silver City your home. Email: editor@scsun-news.com. Put “Reporter position” in the subject line.

Our concern is for the health and safety of our employees, therefore we offer a smoke-free work environment and conduct pre-employment drug testing. The Silver City Sun-News is a member of the Texas-New Mexico Newspapers Partnership.