For more than a century, the North County Times, part of the Lee Enterprises family of newspapers, has served the fast-growing, upscale market of North San Diego and Southwest Riverside counties with award-winning community journalism in its daily print and online editions.
The reach of the North County Times is rapidly expanding — more people are reading the North County Times than ever before. Weekly print and online audience now totals more than 317,000*.
The newspaper pursues an overall strategy of connecting to the community with the highest quality news report, advertising and circulation service. Providing three daily zoned editions in print and continually updated news and features online at nctimes.com, the North County Times reaches nearly one-half of the adults** in its core market with strength across all age groups.
The North County Times has been repeatedly honored by the newspaper industry for its outstanding community journalism. NCT’s experienced newsroom can be matched against any of its size in the country.
The North County Times --- FIRST and BEST in Local News.
Source: *Scarborough, San Diego and Los Angeles, 2008, Release 2
**North County Times Audience Report, January – June 2008
The mission of the North County Times is to provide the most up-to-date and meaningful reporting of world, national, state, local news and events to its readers. Through quality and timely news coverage, efficient customer service and its philanthropic programs, The North County Times is dedicated to giving back to the communities it serves. Our commitment continues — every day in print and 24 hours a day online.
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A great place to work
Whether you're just starting out or looking for a place to step up, our company is a great place to work and build a career.
What we do here is both exciting and important. We're, by far, the main source of news, information and advertising in the region, and every day we make a vital difference in the lives of our readers and online audiences.
We’re focused and action-oriented. We’re aggressive and innovative. We offer excellent employee benefits, reward achievement and provide opportunities for advancement both locally and all across our company. We strive to hire the most talented, dedicated employees, creating a workforce that reflects the diversity of our local readers and the communities we serve.
Within our parent company, Lee Enterprises, you’ll find coast-to-coast career opportunities at 54 outstanding daily newspapers, many small to midsize, where beginning professionals get to do more, be more and make an immediate difference.
Lee’s operations are located in attractive communities, many in spectacular settings, and our employee benefits are among the best anywhere.
Employee benefits
We offer some of the best benefit programs in our industry. We recognize that employees have varying needs, so we have developed a program with options to allow our employees to choose what is right for them.
We offer a variety of options for medical, dental, vision and life insurance coverage. We also offer one of the best retirement account plans in our industry with a range of investment options, including a company match and profit-sharing for eligible employees. We also offer an employee stock purchase plan, healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts, vacation, time off, and company-paid short-term and long-term disability benefits.
Employee development and achievement
As part of Lee Enterprises, one of our top priorities is to “Nurture employee development and achievement.” We seek to help employees develop essential skills in our many functional areas, including journalism, sales, circulation and finance. We also seek to prepare our employees for success through training in leadership, our business, teamwork, respect, diversity and safety.
More than that, we believe that learning isn’t trapped in binders in the classroom. Although we do offer quality structured classroom and online training, we emphasize internal cross-training, outside exposure and developmental assignments. Some learning opportunities are presented by the corporate staff. Other opportunities are developed and delivered locally.
Every employee has the opportunity be proactive in improving personal performance and to apply for open positions. Managers meet regularly with employees to create and review individual performance plans, share feedback, coach and review progress toward career development.
