KYCareerMover: About Us

KYCareermover.com was created to provide one location on the Internet to provide the most complete source of employment ads from Newspapers in the Western Kentucky region. KYCareermover.com is being heavily promoted by participating newspapers to make it the best known career site in the Western Kentucky region. If your newspaper would like to join please contact us by clicking here. If you would like to place and ad online for KYCareermover.com please click here or contact any of the participating newspapers listed below.

Participating newspapers include :

Franklin Favorite Newspaper
103 North High Street
Franklin, KY 42134
Main Phone : (270) 586-4481
Placing a Help Wanted ad : (270) 586-4481
or ffads@franklinfavorite.com
Website : www.franklinfavorite.com

Company Description
Since 1857, the Franklin Favorite has served the readers and advertisers of Simpson County and neighboring communities in southcentral Kentucky and northcentral Tennessee.

The print edition of the newspaper is published weekly. It is distributed by carrier and mail and carries a Thursday dateline.

The Favorite became a part of the Paxton Media Group in January 2001.

The Messenger Newspaper
221 South Main Street
Madisonville , KY 42432
Main Phone : (270) 824-3300
Toll Free : (800) 726-6397
Fax : (270) 821-6855
Placing a Help Wanted ad : (270) 824-3300
or ads@the-messenger.com
Website : www.the-messenger.com

Company Description
Acquired by Paxton Media Group in 1995 from the New York Times, The Messenger is the dominant advertising vehicle in the Madisonville-Hopkins County, Kentucky market. Of all daily newspapers in Kentucky, The Messenger delivers to the fourth highest percentage of homes in the city zone (55%) and to the third highest percentage of homes in its retail trading zone (40%). The award winning newspaper has a daily circulation of 8,548 (8,322 Sunday) and a monthly subscription rate of $11.00 ($0.50 daily, $1.00 Sunday). Competition is limited and generated from a weekly free distribution shopper and a weekly newspaper with circulation of 2,400. Additionally, two metro dailies have limited penetration of 3% and 4% respectively. The Messenger is published Tuesday through Sunday, and a TMC publication is published weekly.

Madisonville, the county seat of Hopkins County, is located in western Kentucky midway between the Indiana and Tennessee borders, approximately 150 miles southwest of Louisville and directly on the proposed Interstate 69 highway. At the end of 2003, the retail trading zone had a population of 50,000. One of the largest non-urban medical centers in the United States (recently named one of the Top 100 Hospitals by Solucient) is located in Madisonville, where the Regional Medical Center and Trover Clinic operate a 410-bed regional acute care facility. Since 2000, seven major companies have located in Hopkins County and one existing industry had a major expansion. Major employers include the medical community, GE Aircraft Engines, Autoliv, Lear and Carhartt. Overall unemployment was about 6.5 % in 2003.

Owensboro Messenger Inquirer Newspaper
1401 Frederica St.
Owensboro , KY 42301
Main Phone : (270) 926-0123
Toll Free : (800) 633-2008
Fax : (270) 685-3446
Placing a Help Wanted ad : (270) 926-6161
or classifieds@messenger-inquirer.com
Website : www.messenger-inquirer.com
General questions : webmaster@messenger-inquirer.com

Company Description
Messenger-Inquirer, the primary daily newspaper serving Daviess, Hancock, McLean, Muhlenberg and Ohio counties in Kentucky, publishes seven days a week with circulation of 34,242 Sunday and 31,559 daily.

The main office and production facility of the Messenger-Inquirer is located at 1401 Frederica Street in Owensboro. A bureau office is located in Greenville, Ky., to better serve communities outside of Daviess County.

The Messenger-Inquirer has a long tradition of excellence in community journalism. In the past three years, it received 90 awards in the Kentucky Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest. In 2000 the Messenger-Inquirer was awarded first place for the General Excellence Award, tied with the Lexington Herald-Leader. The Messenger-Inquirer received first place general excellence in advertising in 2004.

The previous three years, the Messenger-Inquirer finished second in the general excellence category for Kentucky's largest dailies, behind only the Lexington Herald-Leader. In 1989, the Messenger-Inquirer was chosen by the University of Missouri School of Journalism as one of the nation's top five small dailies. That same year, the American Society of Newspaper Editors named the Messenger-Inquirer one of the nation's 14 best small dailies.

Paducah Sun Newspaper
P.O. Box 2300
Paducah , KY 42432
Main Phone : (270) 575-8600
Toll Free : (800) 599-1771
Placing a Help Wanted ad : (270) 575-8700

Website : www.paducahsun.com

Company Description
Established in 1896 by W.F. Paxton, The Paducah Sun is PMG’s flagship newspaper. The Paducah Sun is the fourth-largest daily newspaper in the state of Kentucky with an average daily circulation of 25,268 and a monthly subscription rate of 16.40. ($0.75 daily, $1.50 Sunday at the newsstand). Approximately one-half of The Paducah Sun’s circulation is in McCracken County (population - 65,500) and the remainder is distributed in a surrounding 16 county area in western Kentucky and southern Illinois. The Sun also distributes a weekly total-market-coverage ("TMC") product, eXtra, to approximately 42,000 homes in McCracken and Graves counties.

Paducah is the largest city in far-western Kentucky and far-southern Illinois and serves as its regional trade center. Retail sales in McCracken County are $1.3 billion. Median household income in McCracken County is $33,865 with just over 28 percent of the households earning $50,000 a year or more. Per capita retail sales are actually higher than in Louisville or Lexington, reflecting Paducah’s unique ablility to attract business and retail trade from more rural areas of neighboring counties and states. Western Kentucky is home to a large number of industries, including river-maritime, transportation, computer technology, medical, paper, distribution, chemical facilities and power generation. A uranium enrichment plant, operated by USEC, Inc., is the largest industrial employer in McCracken County. Paducah is also a major regional medical center with two hospitals housing approximately 1,000 hospital beds and collectively employing more than 2,000 people.