If you're looking for a fast-paced, rewarding career where you set your own limits, consider joining the Lansing State Journal team. Published since 1855, the Lansing State Journal is Greater Lansing's premier source of news and advertising, offering career opportunities in many exciting disciplines. Each day, more than 1,500 people combine efforts to produce and deliver the Lansing State Journal to more than 158,000 readers. The careers involved in that effort include: |
News
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Betsy Miner, Assistant Editor, has been with Gannett since 1986, and has worked for three newspapers throughout Michigan. |
The people who bring the news to Greater Lansing include reporters, photographers, editors, graphic artists and support personnel.
Each day we print about 200 stories, selecting from more than 800-1,000 stories and story ideas. The professionals in the newsroom write, edit, illustrate and package these stories to deliver information at a glance along with insightful, in-depth coverage. |
Advertising
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Ellen Kent, Real Estate Sales Representative, joined the Lansing State Journal in 1997. |
As the largest media provider in Greater Lansing, the Lansing State Journal depends on its advertising sales representatives to build and maintain important business relationships with our advertisers.
That's why we make our sales representatives partners in our success, with compensation that includes competitive salaries and a lucrative commission structure. And, our team of graphic artists provides the design services our clients rely on for ads that get results. Together, our advertising staff are responsible for bringing more than 750 retail advertisements to our readers every week, along with more than 30 preprinted inserts and sales flyers. In addition, our classified sales staff helped bring more than 940,000 classified ads to our readers last year alone. |
Circulation
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Tom Spitelex, District Sales Manager, joined the Lansing State Journal in 1998. He has been with Gannett Co. Inc. since 1995. |
Each day, our district sales managers, home delivery managers and single copy manager oversee a carrier force of more than 800 who handle distribution of more than 93,985 newspapers daily.
This complex job takes planning, organization and a dedicated team of assistant district sales mangers, carriers, drivers and customer service people. In addition, our team of telemarketers work to introduce the newspaper to new readers and expand our services among current subscribers. |
Market Development
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Roni Rucker Waters, Community Outreach Manager, joined the Lansing State Journal in 1994. She has worked at five other newspapers. |
As the promotional "nerve center" of the Lansing State Journal, the Market Development Department works with News, Circulation, Advertising and Human Resources to market the paper to readers, subscribers, advertisers and the public.
Each day, the department's market research staff, copywriter, graphic artist and press operator work to create and produce sales presentations, in-paper promotion, print and broadcast advertising, billboards and direct mail aimed at increasing readership and advertising. |
Online
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Fred Menko, Online Project Manager, has been with the Lansing State Journal since 1997. | The department's on-line staff also work to maintain and promote the paper's presence on the Internet, providing another important source for classified and real estate advertising, and information about Greater Lansing. |
Business
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Kathi Waters, Accounting Manager, joined the Lansing State Journal in 1971 as a co-op student. |
As the financial center of the newspaper, the Business department handles billings and accounting for all advertisers and subscribers, as well as providing payroll services.
Their attention to detail, efficiency and ability to process large amounts of new information each day make our business analysts vital to maintaining a healthy bottom line. Our information systems staff help the Business department and others throughout the company achieve this goal by maintaining and programming our computer networks. |
Human Resources
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Cheryl Richardson, Human Resources Manager, joined the Lansing State Journal in 1995. She's involved in management development programs and all facets of Human Resources, including: Equal Employment Opportunity, workers' compensation, safety, recruitment, diversity and training. |
Attracting, recruiting and retaining the right people to staff each of the newspaper's departments is the job of the Human Resources department.
Each day, our human resources professionals use a variety of methods to locate and screen candidates for the many important positions within the company. They also are involved in negotiating and overseeing the benefits and compensation packages that help us retain great employees and stay competitive. |
Production
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Jay Monroe, Day Camera Supervisor, joined the Lansing State Journal in 1993 as a Platemaker Apprentice. Jay has been selected to participate in Gannett's "Grow Our Own" employee development program. |
Each day, our layout technicians, press operators and distribution center personnel produce and assemble more than 93,985 newspapers. That's more than 30 million newspapers every year!
To accomplish this monumental task, our Production department uses an average of 12 tons of newsprint and 500 pounds of ink per day. Because the Lansing State Journal cares about our environment, every single roll of newsprint we use contains some recycled paper. And, all our colored inks are soybean-based, making them more earth-friendly than petroleum-based inks. |
Informations Systems
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Sidney Fung, Information Systems Director, joined the Lansing State Journal as a Systems Analyst in 1993. |
The Information Systems department is responsible for coordinating technology changes for the Lansing State Journal. Computer and networking services are provided to all user deparments such as Business payroll computing services, accounting system computing services, Advertising and Circulation billing services, E-mail services for Administration and Human Resources departments, editorial system services for the News department and imaging services for the Production department. It is the mission for I.S. to use technology to help improve efficiency. The I.S. staff will assist all departments to achieve their goals by providing operational support and custom programming for our computer systems. |