Does any paper still publish an old-time full agate page daily in a digital form?

[Scout]

I actually enjoy the e-edition of my metro daily on my iPhone.

I know the coverage isn’t what it used to be, but I still love scanning a page even if it if digital.

They just don’t do box scores.

Is there a national paper that still does boxes I can scan and not keep clicking over and over?

Thanks

 

[MileHigh]

National? Probably not. Last time I picked up a Denver Post print edition, it still did a lot of agate. The all-digital Denver Gazette publishes a lot of agate.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

We convinced our publisher to subscribe to the CanWest agate service. When that went away, we resorted to standings only. Just didn't have the pages and manpower to continue running boxes. My old paper today has stopped running high school boxes even.

 

[wicked]

I hate to be that old fart, but the grunt work — laying out the agate page, making sure your box scores added up — was valuable. Readers are missing out, and so are younger journalists.

 

[Scout]

The NYPost seems to do it.

Does the Pittsburgh Post Gazette?

 

[maumann]

I hate to be that old fart, but the grunt work — laying out the agate page, making sure your box scores added up — was valuable. Readers are missing out, and so are younger journalists.

And yet, nearly every paper at which I worked, that was the duty of the lowest-paid person on staff, usually a part-timer.

 

[Matt1735]

And yet, nearly every paper at which I worked, that was the duty of the lowest-paid person on staff, usually a part-timer.

That was me!

 

[Songbird]

Some of the best nights in the newsroom were when you still had to do agate and deadline was in less than 5 minutes. Slopping together standings and boxes and leaders and money leaders and transactions was chaotic and exhilarating at times.

 

[wicked]

And yet, nearly every paper at which I worked, that was the duty of the lowest-paid person on staff, usually a part-timer.

Absolutely. That's how you worked your way up. And occasionally you snuck some interesting stuff in the dog track results.

 

[playthrough]

Absolutely. That's how you worked your way up. And occasionally you snuck some interesting stuff in the dog track results.

Some interesting stuff made it into our college paper's agate, usually in golf. I think I finished 27th at the Colonial in 1995.

 

[micropolitan guy]

The Buffalo News has a pretty full agate page every day, including my favorite, Transactions.

We always had one person assigned to do the Scoreboard page (among other duties, like taking phoners) and I loved doing it, tried to really make it shine; standings of West Coast football/basketball leagues when possible, always the trannies, Premier League standings on Tuesdays, etc. We had MLB boxes for many years, and even NBA and pac-10/12 summaries.

My old paper doesn't have one anymore, since it went to a regional design system. A real loss.

 

[wicked]

The beginning of the end was when we started running a briefs rail on the agate page (c. 2o08).

 

[Bud_Bundy]

Local paper runs an agate page which appears to be all national. No HS boxes that I see, not even in Sunday's paper on 3 state high school football championship games involving local teams that were covered on Saturday afternoon. Just a list in Sunday's paper of Friday night high school scores. I went back to the last week of regular season football, nothing in Saturday's paper because deadlines are so early (they do get posted online), just a huge roundup on Sunday with a scorelist, no score by quarters/stats. Really, really sad, but it is a staff down to an SE, 4 full-time writers, a couple of part-time deskers/writers. Coverage of the state's two biggest college FB teams is done by a correspondent because the previous writer got out of the business over the summer and, surprise surprise, wasn't replaced.

 

[ChrisLong]

We did linescores for high school baseball. I put a lot in besides WP, LP, Sv, 2B, 3B, HR, RBI, LOB. I put in BG -- the name of the batgirl who was a friend of mine.

One place we started putting in mugs to break up type in the baseball boxes -- like "Piazza 2 homers." One guy started using negative mugs -- "Palmeiro 3 strikeouts." The same guy eventually got a job at the Hartford Courant because he used a mug of an obscure Red Sox player who nobody ever heard of in SoCal. Hartford SE was impressed.

My first job, Amy Alcott was a local. When the agate page got tight, we were instructed to find her in the LPGA results and cut it off under her name. The golf columnist wrote about her a lot. He got a letter from a reader, who asked, "Why do you keep writing about Amy Alcott all the time when she comes in last place in every tournament?"

Anybody remember the Camel scoreboard?

 

[dixiehack]

Remember when you’d come up on an early deadline or a dead spot in the year and had to get creative with agate filler? BOX -- FightSked was my friend many a night. And if you were hopelessly stumped in winter, there was always the ski report. I’m sure our subscribers in South Georgia appreciated that valuable resource we provided on occasion.

 

[Songbird]

Ski report was great when you needed to fill 50 inches in 8 seconds.

 

[I Should Coco]

Remember when you’d come up on an early deadline or a dead spot in the year and had to get creative with agate filler? BOX -- FightSked was my friend many a night. And if you were hopelessly stumped in winter, there was always the ski report. I’m sure our subscribers in South Georgia appreciated that valuable resource we provided on occasion.

“BBO-ThisDateInHistory” was a good friend of mine.

 

[MeanGreenATO]

I would love it if my local paper would run full agate in the e-edition. It's such a great way to stay abreast of multiple leagues and has actually helped me notice a thing or two on my own beat.

 

[sgreenwell]

My second to last journalism stop - The Newport Daily News - was still running transactions, box scores and some other stuff as of early 2018, when I got laid off. Of course, I believe they were down to a single part-time sports reporter, and a digital editor who used to be on the sports side, by that point. So most days, there would only be one or two locally produced sports pieces, and the rest was wire. It was also a Gatehouse paper with early deadlines, so you got to read about the Monday Red Sox game in the Wednesday edition. (IIRC - There was back and forth at the time about whether they were going to keep doing that, and they may have transitioned away from it.) If you subscribed to the paper, you had access to a pretty decent, clickable PDF every morning, which included the agate.

 

[OTD]

The paper I work for has an agate page. We don't put it together; it comes already built from a contractor.