So how many interviews has Doig already lined up?

“I probably have 15-20 candidates so far,” he told Poynter’s Jim Romenesko. “This was my first job post. But I took a similar approach when I was looking for a job about 10 years ago. I wrote what you’d probably consider a ‘non-traditional’ cover letter figuring that anybody who didn’t like it would also not like me (and vice-versa). The guy who hired me at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Chris Davis, told me he never even read the clips I sent. He just loved the cover letter. And he and I have gotten along about as well as any reporter and editor can, so my strategy must have worked.”

If you think you can get along with Doig, you can apply here.

via Sarasota Herald-Tribune now hottest place to land a journalism job – Yahoo! News.