What a concept

Now that the buyouts, layoffs and resulting transfers are finished, the Times' Sports section is looking to recruit some new staffers. For the open reporter slot, the memo feels obliged to suggest a key prerequisite (emphasis added):

Sports has an opening for a general assignment reporter to work mainly with our enterprise, projects and investigative team. This reporter, who must know and like sports...

Full memo after the jump.

Openings--Sports
To: The Staff
From: Randy Harvey, Bill Dwyre and Mike James

Sports has several positions to fill. Applicants, who must come from within The Times' Editorial staff, should contact Bill Dwyre or Mike James, who will review candidates for new Sports Editor Randy Harvey, who arrives on April 3. The jobs are:

Projects editor---Sports
Sports has an opening for an editor to lead its project, investigative and enterprise team.

The editor will generate story ideas, visualize their direction and assign and supervise projects from start to finish. Part of the duties will include sports enterprise -- that is, helping to generate and edit sports-related stories for the full paper's Page One.

The hours will be mostly days, Monday through Friday, with occasional weekend work.

This job was held by Steve Clow before he moved to the California section.

Assistant Editor--Sports
Sports has an opening for an assistant sports editor to work with reporters on stories from conception to publication.

This editor, who will be a key part of the team that helps to manage Times Sports, must be skilled in generating ideas, managing people, exercising news judgment, organizing and line editing. A deep knowledge of sports -- and a healthy skepticism about them -- also is recommended. Weekend work will be required.

This job was held by Claire Noland before she moved to News Obits.

Reporter--Sports
Sports has an opening for a general assignment reporter to work mainly with our enterprise, projects and investigative team.

This reporter, who must know and like sports, will generate stories that are above and away from routine coverage of individual games or specific teams. This requires a self-starter who knows how to dig in records and deal with documents, the courts and the legal system; such knowledge and experience likely will have been acquired via a background in hard news reporting. Weekend and night work will be necessary.

March 17, 2006