Recent content by azmgb

As someone on the copy desk who survived, I agree wholeheartedly with Bordow's comments. It's a very somber mood in the newsroom right now, and frankly, I think even the people who survived are looking to get out. The future doesn't look good, and I feel incredibly sorry for all the great people...

I had a very similar situation a few years back while covering the NCAA D-2 women's golf championships. Local girl that had been very friendly and approachable throughout the tourney collapses in the final round ... followed by the tears and all that. And I know what you mean, I just kind of...

I agree with "crossing the "t"s and dotting the "i"s." You can't dot the i if it's capitalized.

This might be what you're looking for, although it appears to be from a couple years ago and doesn't actualy include EVERY team, only the ones they were able to get reports from. http://www2.indystar.com/NCAA_financial_reports/

Thanks for the tips, I hadn't thought about the possibility of a Word doc showing up without the formatting.

The scanned copies are perfectly legible, I have a very high-quality scanner. Basically, I just wondered if it was considered more professional to have the version straight out of InDesign or whatever layout program, or if most places prefer the clips as they appeared in the paper.

What I mean by jpegs was exporting the image from the InDesign plan and saving it as a jpeg, rather than a pdf, so I could just embed it in a Word file or something like that, rather than setting it all up as a PDF

I'm in a similar situation, basically trying to move from the desk into more of a writing job. How do you guys usually show your clips on a resume (embedded in the document)? And do you usually use the jpegs from the plan (is it considered unprofessional to have a scanned copy of the actual...

If you go to a sporting goods store, you might be able to find the same type of book coaches use. Personally, I always just made my own on notebook paper or whatever I had handy. I preferred it that way because I could organize it however I wanted.