The Oregonian is Already Hiring New Reporters

By AARON MESH

Three days after The Oregonian finished laying off nearly a quarter of its newsroom staff, the paper's new digital company, Oregonian Media Group, is advertising reporting jobs at the paper. 

Oregonian Media Group, the new company formed by The Oregonian, has begun posting job openings this morning—for a general assignment reporter, a music critic, a content data analyst, and an advertorial editor.

"You will be part of an exciting initiative to take us even further into the digital space, but also join a team that already has solid multimedia savvy," the general-assignment reporter listing says. While we value experience, talent is the pivotal factor, and we are proactive about professional development, whether you are a 10-year veteran or just starting your journalistic career.

A company called Workforce Strategies, Inc. has also posted a job listing on LinkedIn for a general assignment reporter at The Oregonian. 

UPDATE, 12:35 pm: Anderson verifies to WW the job offers are authentic.

"We'll be advertising open positions for Oregonian Media Group and Advance Central Services Oregon using a wide variety of sources; obviously, LinkedIn is one of those," Anderson says in an email. "We'll be posting on OregonLive.com and many other places – even The Oregonian. And in the case of positions in the content area, we have a significant number of applications on hand and will review those as well."

On Thursday, the paper announced it is moving to a digital-first reporting strategy and reducing home delivery to four days a week. It then laid off more than 45 employees in a newsroom of 218.

Publisher N. Christian Anderson has pledged that although The Oregonian laid off staff last week, the paper will have the same number of reporters when it debuts its changes on Oct. 1.

"Peter Bhatia, our editor, told his staff Thursday that as we have about 90 reporters now, we will have 90 reporters on October 1," Anderson wrote in an editorial yesterday. "Some of our content staff will be new, replacing some well-known names and faces that will be leaving us sometime this summer."

The job listing suggests that new jobs at The Oregonian will be heavily focused on web traffic. The employee will be expected to "monitor websites for aggregation opportunities" and "post supplementary content in coordination with related content reporters."

Here is the full listing posted by Oregonian Media Group:

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