Photo Editor Mistakenly Makes Job Plea Very Public

Gawker has spotted a cringe-worthy gaffe by a photo editor at the Associated Press whose job search went inadvertently public. A photo caption that went out across the wires began in ordinary fashion, but had this tucked within it, in an apparent copy-and-paste debacle:

• "Instead of starting this cover letter by listing the top ten reasons why I am the perfect candidate to be Buzzfeed's photo essay editor, or creating a quiz about what type of job applicant, I, Karly Domb Sadof, am (because I imagine you have just finished reading half a dozen cover letters in those formats) I will say I am applying for Buzzfeed's photo essay editor position because I want to do to photojournalism what the Quiz and 'listicle' have done to Lifestyle journalism."

AP quickly sent out a revised caption, sans "unneeded information." No word yet from the parties involved, but as Mediaite notes, "it's only a matter of time until BuzzFeed comes out with a list of the 10 Reasons This Puts Us In an Incredibly Awkward Position…" (More Associated Press stories.)