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Odenton Patch is seeking a hard-working person to assist in coverage of the Arundel High basketball teams. The job will require coverage of 1-2 games per week with the occasional feature story. We also require that a few photos be taken at each game. The Arundel girls are the defending state...

Odenton Patch launches on Sept. 15 and is seeking a handful of solid people who can help out with coverage of high school and youth sports in Odenton, Md. Primary coverage will be of sports at Arundel High School. We have an immediate need for people to cover football, field hockey and...

Patch, a growing network of local news Web sites, is seeking an editor to manage coverage of sports in Anne Arundel County in Maryland. We're looking for someone who can cover major high school sports as well as some youth sports. Navy Football and the Bowie Baysox minor league baseball team may...

But there are many people who believe that local online advertising is a big untapped market and has potential for growth. I also think that in the case of Patch, there will be economies of scale and their cost structure will be lower than the newspapers competing in those communities.

You're going to be hearing a lot more about Patch in the next few months. Basically, it's a network of local sites covering small communities. (Check out Patch.com to get some examples.) Each site has a full-time editor who recruits and manages a staff of freelancers to help cover the community...

Please note the contact email address for this opportunity has changed. There was a slight spelling error on my part. I apologize for any confusion.

The Washington Kastles of World TeamTennis have an immediate need for someone to cover four of their matches and help out with some other communications. There will be one home match on July 12 in D.C. and three road matches on July 8, 9 and 10. The road matches will not require travel...you...

Glad there are some actual hiring managers on here to clarify this. I think we've all heard stories of people who have been hired because they've actually taken the initiative to call. I've found e-mailing hiring managers to be more effective. You can get your eagerness across without being as...

I wouldn't bother with Examiner.com and similar sites. You will make just pennies and you ultimately will have no control. If you're looking to write just to keep your name out there, the best thing to do is start a blog or Web site and try to create your own brand with it. After a while you can...

Can't afford to send a reporter to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver? Let me help you out. I am fully credentialed for the Games and am willing to help out with daily updates, features, blogging or whatever you might need. I am particularly skilled at sports business stories. I spent the last...

I assure you that if you saw a byline from the nation of Georgia, it was a freelancer.

As someone who works in the Times sports department, I can tell you that Barker jumped the gun on this a bit. Nothing has been announced. This is what is widely rumored to be happening, but we have been told absolutely nothing specific about the paper's plans since they announced there would be...

I'm not a huge fan of publicists and PR folks in general, and this is just a weird article, to be honest. But I will say that from my experience, the folks at NASCAR are among the most helpful in all of sports. For the most part, they actually "get" that news coverage of the sport enhances...

I've had DirecTV since April and have never lost a signal. And that includes when Tropical Storm Ernesto blew through the Mid-Atlantic last week. Cable companies love to talk about satellite signals going out, but it's not a major problem. Cable companies are evil.