Digital journalism jobs in Des Moines, St. Louis and Chicago

Some interesting openings in the Midwest digital media space…

• The Des Moines Register is filling a couple digital positions, hiring a college sports digital editor and a digital reporter to cover the Iowa Hawkeyes.

• The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is hiring a social media editor. I don’t see a link online, but I got this via email. Here’s more info (thanks Will Sullivan for the link).

Social media promotions editor
Exempt, full time, reports to Interactive Director, Will Sullivan

We are looking for someone to reach out to the St. Louis audience and let them know about our work. Specifically … we want an intelligent, curious go-getter who will get the most out of social media in launching new products, building audiences and communities.

Send your application digitally to Will Sullivan at stltodayrules [at] gmail.com. Application deadline: Sunday, July 18th (We’re looking to move quickly on this.) No phone calls or paper applications accepted.

• The Chicago Tribune is hiring people for a “new consulting business in its digital department.”

The new business, called 435 Digital Services, will be hiring a handful of people for the effort and will redeploy existing employees to the project to create a unit of about 10 workers, says Bill Adee, the newspaper’s digital department vice-president.

Tribune has placed ads seeking new hires and hopes to install them by the end of this month, Mr. Adee says. One ad calls for a “social media guru” looking to “show off your sales skills.”

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