A year ago, Mark Bergman launched Virgin Radio 96 on air. Now he da boss.
Mark Bergman, who hosts the afternoon drive-time show on CJFM (Mix 96 Virgin Radio 96) but was recently promoted to interim program director at the station, is hanging up the mic and hiring his own replacement.
But he won't disappear forever, he tells me:
Radio is a passion of mine (I'd have to be crazy to be in this biz, if it wasn't).
I started off handing out bumper stickers, then tech work, then overnight shows, evenings, drive, and now the next step for me is programming the entire station. It's ways been a goal to program... But yes, I will still be around on-air here and there.
Bergman, who I'm told spends his days alone in his office crying, with occasional screams of "Chantal! Why did you leave me?", is accepting applications for a permanent weekday 4-7pm host until Jan. 31. Requirements are three years of on-air experience, the kind of energy and perkiness that you'd expect from a music radio announcer, and "fashion sense of Lady Gaga", which I find an odd requirement because every time I see someone from that station they're wearing a standard-issue Virgin Radio T-shirt.
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I'm on a mailing list for job postings related to editing, you know, for when that six-figure executive position comes up with the corporate jet. I just haven't bothered unsubscribing.
Even though I'm not looking for a job, I read the emails out of curiosity.
One I've seen a few times is from a trade magazine publisher. Trade magazines are usually high-budget affairs because they're sent to highly-paid professionals and a lot of money is spent on advertising and otherwise communicating things between people in this industry.
The position is a "junior editor", who is responsible for editing and proofreading, assigning material to freelancers, deciding on editorial coverage, "managing multiple projects simultaneously" and working on the design.
Doesn't sound particularly "junior" to me, but maybe some of those things are exaggerated.
The position requires a B.A. in communications (or equivalent) and professional editing skills. Knowledge of Quark Xpress and bilingualism are listed as "assets"
It's entry-level, but professional.
The starting salary? $13/hour
And yet for some reason I keep seeing this position posted every month or two. It's almost as if the salary is so insultingly low that the people who apply are all horrendously unqualified.
Sadder still, I'm sure you can come up with even worse examples.
Catch pedophiles. Tailgate the transport minister. Discover the evils of being hired as an anglophone. Follow ceremonial appointments and complain about how they're so ceremonial.
Those are among the selling points, apparently, of being hired as a reporter for the Journal de Montréal. And if such ... let's call it "journalism" ... appeals to you (and you write well in French), you're in luck: Montreal's biggest newspaper is hiring.
Check your dignity at the door and send an application to Gazette turncoat traitor managing editor George Kalogerakis.
UPDATE: I see I'm not the only one to notice this.
There's an opening. I guess that means the current host isn't coming back (perhaps putting too much faith in a Cory Doctorow endorsement).
The National Post is looking for someone to manage its online property and come up with ideas on how to make it suck less.
Applicants need to have an understanding of search engine optimization and "experience working with Google". (I assume they mean using the search engine as opposed to working for the company.)
Any takers?
