BREAKING META NEWS: Will Sullivan is leaving Florida, heading to St. Louis

St. Louis Arch

Some of you may know this already, but I figured I might as well break this here and now before Hartnett scoops me on my own job announcement:

I’ve accepted a job at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as their new Interactive Director!

I’ve really been debating how to explain how I feel but as Derek said when he announced his NY Times move, everything I write sounds corny.

So basically, I’m mega stoked. (That’s not corny, is it?)

The PD has a really passionate, talented crew up there that I fell in love with. The city is a great Midwestern balance between Chicago and Toledo. The corporate parent generally has a hands-off approach on the PD website. Perhaps most influential: the paper’s leaders read Journerdism and love the awesome science I’m kickin’, so they want me to bring my vision there.

I’m very thankful for all the opportunities, friends, experiences and awesome colleagues I’ve had in Florida at both TCPalm / Scripps Newspapers and The Palm Beach Post / Cox Newspapers but I had to jump on this opportunity. (Ok, this is totally corny. But true.)

Being a Cubs fan in Cardinals land is going to be rough but if that’s the hardest thing about this new gig, I’ll be just fine. STL, here I come. (I start in January, btw.)

Now I must get back to judging the NAA Media Innovation Awards before the quickly-approaching deadline this week.

Onward and upward.
Will

P.S. Know any rockstar developers? Shoot me an email at: will (at) journerdism.com. We’re going to have a lot of awesome opportunities in St. Louis, from a redesign to some very special niche projects.

P.P.S. Wanna buy a 2 bed, 2 bath condo 5 mins from the beach in beautiful, sunny, Stuart Florida!? Motivated seller!

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11.28.07 / 12am
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