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Job: Regional Managing Editor – Portland (Momentum Magazine) – FILLED
Job Title
Regional Managing Editor- Portland
This position has been filled.
Company/Organization
Momentum Magazine
Job Description / Assignment
Develop your skills as an editor and organizer with our future-focused, positive and growing
magazine. We are looking for an energetic, talented editor with a positive outlook and a great
skill for motivating and organizing creative people. Your local team will report on and reflect the
culture of cycling in your community. Together you will share stories of fabulous everyday
people making a simple, self-propelled difference and connect readers with local cycling
resources and events.
Regional Editors wanted for the following locations:
• Portland
• New York City
Time requirement: Approximately 40 hours per issue (every two months)
Payment: honorarium based on section page count ($250–500 to start)
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Education: Third year student in print journalism, first year masters program or equivalent
experience.
• The successful candidate is deadline-driven, full of story ideas, and is an independent worker
that is willing to take initiative.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products including Word and Excel.
• Basic familiarity with graphics formats and image handling an asset.
• Must understand the essence of being a cyclist who rides their bike everyday.
• Knowledgeable and involved with local cycling issues, events and culture.
• Excellent communication skills and respect for dialogue and diversity of opinion.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Recruit and manage local writers and photographers.
• Research regional stories about people and organizations promoting or celebrating cycling or simply living life self-propelled.
• Fact checking, proofreading, making phone calls.
• Plan, assign, edit and submit 4 to 8 pages of content including profiles, features and events
listings.
• Enforce deadlines.
• Edit all writing before it is submitted to layout.
• Manage (small) editorial budget.
• Reports to Editor
ABOUT MOMENTUM
Momentum is North America’s urban cycling culture magazine. Covering a range of topics from arts; food; current events; fashion; gear reviews plus thoughtful analysis of ideas and cultural trends, Momentum is a niche publication for people who ride bikes to get around.
Momentum is published bi-monthly, distributed free in 20 North American cities and available everywhere by subscription. Momentum’s current print run is 60,000 copies and these are divided into 4 different editions – BC, Chicago, San Francisco Bay Area and North America. The goal for 2010 is to add up to 5 more editions in Portland, Seattle, New York, Canada and USA.
How to Apply
Reply to: amy at momentumplanet dot com
Reply with a cover letter, CV and samples of your own writing by December 11, 2009.
Blue Giant VT2 2003
Year: 2003
Brand: Giant
Model: VT2
Color:Blue
Size:Unknown, but it has a dent on the top/right/middle of the top tube
Serial: GN327510
Photo: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y_PunS14gQ/SuqDI1HKxQI/AAAAAAAAEHc/vVKR_fEZapA/s400/vt2.jpg
Stolen in Portland, OR 97201
Stolen:2009-12-2
Stolen From: My bike was stolen outside of a building on Portland State University’s campus, while it was parked next to Broadway.
Neighborhood: University District I believe, right down town
Owner: Rios Max
OwnerEmail: butane@pdx.edu
Reward: $50
Description: The bike has a fox fork and shock. The fork is a dark blue/black Vanilla RLC with gold “legs”. It has an mrp bashguard, but the “p” is covered with black tape. Raceface cranks, but the logo is covered with black tape. XT hubs im pretty sure. It also has one wilderness trail tire, and I can’t recall what the other one is. Brakes are mechanical Avids, 6 inchers I believe. The wheels are sun ringle silver 26 inchers.
Police record with: Portland State Campus Security
Police reference#: 09-0623
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Who’s coming to BikeCraft?
PBR mudflaps anyone? Offered by
Edwin of A Convenient Cycle.
(Photo © Elly Blue)
Edwin of A Convenient Cycle.
(Photo © Elly Blue)
I hope you bring your holiday shopping list to BikeCraft. The big show happens this Saturday (10-5 at 420 NE 9th Ave) and it’s going to be a-ma-zing.
We’ve got around 50 vendors. They’re all based in Portland and they all have fantastic, handmade bike-related wonderments to share with you.
Behold, the most marvelous gathering of crafty bikers (or is it bikey crafters?) ever assembled:
Update on progress of bike boulevard project in Sellwood
Detail of new “channelizing islands” recently
installed on SE Spokane St.
(Photos © Adams Carroll)
installed on SE Spokane St.
(Photos © Adams Carroll)
The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation is just weeks away from unveiling one of the most important bike-related infrastructure projects in years. Their new bike boulevard on SE Spokane Street in Sellwood is the first of their “next generation” bike boulevards and the first of 60 miles of bike boulevards they have planned for completion between now and 2013.
Black with red, orange, and yellow stripes Pugeot
Brand: Pugeot
Color:Black with red, orange, and yellow stripes
Stolen in Portland, OR 97201
Stolen:2009-12-3
Stolen From: Stolen from Portland State University. On a rack on 6th and Jackson in front of the Broadway Building dorm rooms.
Neighborhood: Southwest
Owner: Audrey Franklin
OwnerEmail: aefranklin711@yahoo.com
Reward: $200
Description: A black men’s frame pugeot with red, yellow, and orange stripes. A front and back fender. Rack on the back. Water bottle holder with a Sirius Satelite Radio water bottle in it. Small red light on the back of the rack. Blue bungee cord on the rack.
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Weekend Event Guide
Wait, is it really winter? The sun is out and there’s a lot to do this weekend, starting today. Don’t forget Monday’s holiday, family-friendly events up at Portland International Raceway —
Thursday, Dec 3
5:00pm – 7:00pm: BikePortland Social
Drink coffee or beer, meet other readers, and discuss the current state of bicycle advocacy in Portland. Floyd’s Coffee Shop in Old Town, 118 NW Couch
6:00pm – 8:30pm: Willamette Pedestrian Coalition Holiday Happy Hour
Join the WPC board and staff for drinks and discussion of walking issues. Great Hall, 1406 SW Broadway.
Tonight: Bike art and bike talk in downtown Portland
Join us to talk about bikes
tonight in Old Town.
(Photo © J. Maus)
tonight in Old Town.
(Photo © J. Maus)
Yes, we know tonight is the big Ducks vs. Beavers Civil War football game, but for anyone not planning to watch that…
Tonight in downtown Portland you can stimulate your mind with paintings and conversation based on our favorite topic: bicycles.
From 5:00-7:00pm we’re hosting a social meet-up at Floyd’s Coffee Shop (118 NW Couch). With the BTA looking for a new leader (and a new identity), a new Bicycle Plan on the horizon, a massive infrastructure project looming, and the ever-evolving landscape of our local bike scene, we thought it was time to get together and chat in person.
Sellwood neighborhood plans bike boulevard celebration
PBOT has made major safety improvements
to this crossing (SE 13th and Spokane).
(Photo © J. Maus)
to this crossing (SE 13th and Spokane).
(Photo © J. Maus)
The Sellwood Bike Boulevard project is nearing completion and the neighborhood wants to celebrate. The Sellwood Moreland Improvement League (SMILE) will host a bike ride and party on Saturday December 19th to welcome the City’s first “next generation” bike boulevard.
White Peugoet Triathalon Super Vittus 1980
Year: 1980
Brand: Peugoet
Model: Triathalon Super Vittus
Color:White
Size:58cm
Stolen in Portland, OR
Stolen:2009-07-5
Stolen From: Near Hawthorne Blvd….fron basement of friends house.
Neighborhood: Hawthorne
Owner: Gabriel Storm
OwnerEmail: gabe@pdxdesigns.com
Reward: $250
Description: This beloved bike has been with me since 1993. Not pretty but my baby. Stronglight vintage components, campy hubs, one bar end shifter, green rear derailluer cable, black cork tape, schwinn stingray kelvar seat- Gold
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Blue Rocky Mountain Hammer Race 2000
Year: 2000
Brand: Rocky Mountain
Model: Hammer Race
Color:Blue
Size:19.5″
Photo: http://www.bikepedia.com/Images/image.aspx?w=400&h=400&filename=2000+Rocky+Mountain+Hammer+Race.jpg
Stolen in Portland, OR 97215
Stolen:2009-11-30
Stolen From: In front of an appartment building at SE 39th and Belmont.
Neighborhood: Belmont
Owner: Nate Roter
OwnerEmail: freshnar@gmail.com
Reward: $100
Description: It had a rear rack, and a rigid black fork. XTR rear derailleur and a flat, silver Bontrager Handlebar. Truvativ Stylo Team cranks. Black Zéfal fenders.
Police record with: 09-150377
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Black/gray Raleigh (road bike)
Brand: Raleigh
Model: (road bike)
Color:Black/gray
Stolen in Portland, OR 97212
Stolen:2009-12-2
Stolen From: “Fremont Place”
on the corner of NE 15th and Fremont.
Neighborhood: Sabin
Owner: Emily Schmitt
OwnerEmail: ea_schmitt@hotmail.com
Reward: $100
Description: Black and grey women’s Raleigh road bike. It has a yellow “BTA” sticker on the front stem. Features a black back rack. BRAND NEW handle bar tape job. Less than a week ago had a full overhaul. Please help!
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike