Recent content by sartysnopes

I don't agree that you should let the subject know you're taping -- unless your state or the subject's state requires it (you can find a list of those states online). The last thing I want someone to think about when they're talking to me is that I'm recording it. They will start choosing their...

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May 26-June 3 PM if available.

Nothing about reporting? Jason, I wholeheartedly admire your ability to passionately argue a topic, particularly those rarely touched in the mainstream. Yet the one commonality I find among my favorite columnists is they also are intrepid reporters with an ability to get the thoughts and words...

Jake is a very good news reporter. I'm not surprised at all Vince and his wife didn't want to be named. To accuse a Cardinal, particularly a fallen one, is like heresy in St. Louis. This isn't being insincere at all. This is trying to explain a deadly accident.

Re: Gary Thorne: It was paint on Schilling's sock in Game 6 of the LCS, not bloo Interesting note: ESPN has not mentioned its affiliation with Thorne in its story on the Web site.

Remember you're dealing with a high school, so it's a place generally considering athletes between 14 and 18 years old. The world isn't going to turn over a high school merger, and considering the size of the schools, clearly your education reporter has much more work ahead of him than you do...

This has a very practical problem. I have seen these comment sections directly influence sources, particularly coaches, who are very reluctant to criticize their teams because someone will instantly label it as an "excuse" on the Web site for everyone else to read. I have no problem with people...

Personally, I think it's ridiculous to expect an associate managing editor of a newspaper to explain himself on a message board in which people regularly curse and some people have logged thousands of posts while on the clock. I'll tell you what that reminds me of: people who post on the...

You people are making this job way harder than it is...

Stop thinking like a sportswriter -- and all the official channels -- and be a reporter. If anything, the amount of attention this SID has given you about this player who left should hint that something really shady went on. Chase it and stop worrying about the SID.

If there's a cancer in this industry, it's this line of thinking. And it absolutely permeates too many newsrooms and press boxes around the country.

If they opened the sidelines at NCAA or NFL games, would a single person here sit up in the press box? I hope not. So why would it be any different for preps? It's an opportunity to get a better story. Take advantage of it. I'm confounded anyone would choose to sit farther away from the people...

Every time I've had a situation like this, where a coach won't comment because of a perceived "negative" story, I've shut out the coach. I talk to his kids. If he shuts them out, I say fine. I can tell the story from the other side. And besides, it's only a high school game. The world will keep...

Here's an idea: instead of trying to break your clips down into categories like "feature" and "gamer," as if the two parts of a Venn diagram can't ever intersect, try breaking up your stories by the fashion in which you write them. For instance, you might have two eye-catching features, but if...