The interview process was very straightforward and painless. I spoke to multiple editors on the phone, along with the executive editor and editor-in-chief, and then received an offer a few days later.

I spoke one-on-one with two different human resources pros in an internal interview process that followed a stark reality: everyone's job had been dissolved and everyone was applying for new jobs. We each got a list of new jobs and were directed to apply for two. Clearly, not everyone was going to get a new job. The whole thing was an attempt to update, or modernize, the newsroom. Anyway, the interview process was somewhat weird because both interviewers were from Gannett sites out of town -- even out of state -- whereas the editors with whom I'd worked, in some cases for years, were not involved, at least not overtly. In the interview I was interested in the amount of time spent on my academic degrees, clearly a thing of the past, and not on current or future operations. My questions for the interviewers were geared toward the future, which was top of mind at that point.