Dear dumbass, I'm paid to cover area sports - i.e. high school - at the hyperlocal Podunker. I don't know who won a fight at MMA and I frankly...
Also this being able to move up is becoming almost impossible as lots of newspapers are laying off staff or not filling vacanies. This sounds like...
Readers don't want to hear it. They don't care how small your staff is by in large, they want the same or more. But I think it's better to be...
These consolidation pagination/copy editing hubs aren't too grand. A Gannett paper in our area has lost a lot of its local flavor for AP articles,...
At small community papers that a lot of time don't do anything much beyond spot news, a respectable - and I'd argue good - sports page is essential.
^ Which is why I like to keep my own stuff. Tackles in football and rebounds in basketball can be severely inflated. I had a game where a kid was...
When I cover a game, I try to keep the basic stats like points, rebounds, assists, steals, etc. I was covering a game night and someone asked me...
Not a big deal. We do it ourselves. Usually Mondays and Tuesdays we are 10 pages and have sports on the back and have a jump to nine on Mondays....
To pick up the paper and be proud of overcoming odds and putting together a local sports page at a small shop that looks better than a lot of the...
I expect there to be cheering in a high school press box because it's high school. Most of the people up there are involved in the program or have...
We've been cut back to the bone for most of this decade, so this downturn has only affected us by seven furlough days. Basically given what we...
It also never hurts to turn the gamer into a mini feature on one of the impact players. Also keep in mind of the impact of the game and what it...
I encourage submissions from the community on league titles in the lower ranks (like JV, junior high, etc.) and stuff like that, but I really have...
crusoes, which was wrong. If you believe in what this country is supposed to stand for then those folks shouldn't be rewarded for failure. Of...
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