Sunday, August 30, 2009

The News Tribune (Tacoma) is looking for a web developer/designer

The News Tribune is advertising for a web developer/designer.
Description:

Seeking skilled web developer/designer to join an energetic, publish-to-the-web-first newsroom. This job requires demonstrated design prowess and technical abilities in building and maintaining web pages on an enterprise-level CMS and a WordPress blogging platform.

Requirements:

Requires proficiency in HTML, CSS and Flash. Must demonstrate experience with integrating audio, video and social media platforms into web pages using API’s and widgets. Job also involves collaborative design/build projects with advertising and marketing departments. Working knowledge of LAMP, PERL, Javascript and XML a plus.

Salary not specified.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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Paper Owner Freedom (OC Register) Plans to File For Chapter 11 (WSJ)

Freedom Communications Inc., the owner of the Orange County Register, is expected to declare bankruptcy this week, according to people familiar with the situation, the latest in a string of Chapter 11 filings in the battered newspaper business.

The company, majority owned for more than 70 years by the Hoiles family, has reached agreements with its lenders to restructure its debts, according to these people.

With annual revenue of about $700 million, Freedom owns the Register and more than 30 other daily papers and eight TV stations. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization -- a popular measurement for leveraged companies -- have declined about 75% over the past five years to about $50 million.

Freedom was founded in the 1930s by R. C. Hoiles, a former printer's apprentice who used his publications in part to spread his libertarian views. The Orange County Register continues the libertarian approach but, like other newspapers across the country, has had to confront the question of its survival.

"We are continuing to work with our lenders to address our balance sheet," said a Freedom spokesman.

Freedom's lenders, which hold roughly $770 million in debt, are expected to take control of the company as it operates under bankruptcy protection. They include J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., SunTrust Banks and Union Bank of California.

The filing is a blow to private-equity firms Blackstone Group and Providence Equity Partners, which acquired a 40% equity stake in the company in 2004 for about $460 million. The deal, which used a relatively small amount of debt compared to later deals in the buyout boom, already has been written down to zero by both firms.

The Hoiles family has been divided for years about what to do with the Irvine, Calif., company.