Major change in our newsroom. But how did THIS happen?

and they never, ever kiss you first.

 

Not trying to thread-jack, but I am curious if this type situation may be becoming a trend, as I have heard of at least one paper here in Texas doing the same thing a couple months back.
If this ever happened here, I hope I am working the day the ME asks our religion editor to cover a high school volleyball game.

 

that's the point, dog. nobodys asks news people to cover sports; it's the other way around.

 

Which again goes to show the versatility of many sports reporters vs. the rest of the field.

Where else can you get someone well-rounded enough to write hard news (trade), a second-day spin (in this day and age, that's a gamer for you), a takeout, a feature and use some interesting language to keep the readers in? Except at a smaller paper, news reporters do not have that breadth of work to tackle on a regular basis.

Even better would be sending the lifestyles editor out to cover a football game. Ninety-nine times out of 100, pure flippin' disaster, I bet.

 

Of course, this announcement would come down now, when it's summer and news-siders see the sports department "not doing anything."

So editors come out with this helping each other out crap, which will last until about the end of August.

And when the sports department tries to get the newsies to help out with a sports story, the news editor will say, "We can't. We're too busy with our own stories."

 

Partners?

Whenever news side starts talking about their being part of a "team" with sports, I always look to run for the hills, so it's a little more difficult for my "partners" to fuck me over. Which they will. It's like being a member of the Bobby Heenan "family." Smile, shake hands and watch your ass.

 

Another newsie thing that pisses me off:

During election nights, they'll bitch up a storm about working at night and all the agate and shit like that. And of course, they cater subs or bring in pizza for them.

 

We finally have the Deputy Editor who oversees sports convinced that for sports, every Friday night in football season is like election night. He gets it ... but we don't get pizza.

 

Universal desk? Welcome to the future.

 

Even though the games end earlier, basketball season can be the same way.

 

Is this at all like the AJC's "Newsroom without walls"? Is that where this paper, and others are heading?

 

Not knowing about changes? How about this that happened on a Monday at a paper in the region. SE walks in to find out there is no more "sports department" and therefore he's no longer the SE. SE, ASE are reclassified as copy editors and the supervision of the universal desk and universal reporting staff now is under the ME and AME.