From The Washington Post: Amid layoffs and furloughs, sportswriters wonder what will be left of a st

[SoloFlyer]

Can't read the Post story without subscribing.

Every working journalist should be subscribed to multiple news outlets.

Subscribe to your local competitors, the largest outlets in your state (if you're not at one), and a few national publications.

 

[SoloFlyer]

So I think we agree. In a time of dwindling resources it makes sense to focus on the professional sports teams and major college beats and, sadly, reduce coverage of high school sports.

FWIW, when I made my original post I thought about the Post moving Newman to the Rockies from high school sports.

That decision isn't universally wise.

Major metros like Denver, sure. Plenty of areas in the country that once covered pro sports that no longer need to. Pick up the AP wire and dig in on preps.

 

[Fredrick]

Every working journalist should be subscribed to multiple news outlets.

Subscribe to your local competitors, the largest outlets in your state (if you're not at one), and a few national publications.

Can you write it off on your taxes? No way in hell I'd pay for those myself.

 

[rtse11]

No place I've ever worked, union or not, ever reimbursed me for joining professional organizations. They did pay for our AP contest entries up until a couple of years ago when they decided "it wasn't worth the expense"

 

[SoloFlyer]

No place I've ever worked, union or not, ever reimbursed me for joining professional organizations. They did pay for our AP contest entries up until a couple of years ago when they decided "it wasn't worth the expense"

Companies won't reimburse, but subscriptions can be tax write-offs as unreimbursed business examples.

 

[motorsportwriter]

Companies won't reimburse, but subscriptions can be tax write-offs as unreimbursed business examples.

To the best of my knowledge -- and also when I did my 2O19 taxes, you can no longer write off virtually ANY expenses that come out of your own pocket. Supposedly, it will continue this way through 2O25. The only way you can write off expenses is if you're a full-time freelancer or do extensive freelance work for several clients on a part-time basis. If you want to write off expenses incurred and you're a W-2 employee, forget it, it's been outlawed.

 

[hondo]

Don't undervalue what preps do for metros. At The Denver Post, for instance, even without a dedicated preps reporter, a preps story would generate more subscriptions on average than any sports beat. In Charlotte, preps stories drive significant traffic and serious subscription numbers. Does it help having a local legend cover preps here? Yes. But if he wasn't writing stories people were interested in, they wouldn't be paying for them. Having a good preps reporter who is dedicated to their job can easily pay for itself.

And if we ever stopped calling them "preps" -- which nobody in the public calls them -- and started calling them "high schools" -- which everybody outside of the media calls them -- the situation might be even better.
Can we please retire the word "prep?" It's an archaic, 1940s term that is kept alive only because it fits in a one-column sig.

 

[I Should Coco]

Next thing you'll say is to stop using cagers, harriers and gridiron! Or, gasp, thinclads!

 

[Slacker]

Next thing you'll say is to stop using cagers, harriers and gridiron! Or, gasp, thinclads!

You plated three runs with that Ruthian blast.

 

[cake in the rain]

To the best of my knowledge -- and also when I did my 2O19 taxes, you can no longer write off virtually ANY expenses that come out of your own pocket. Supposedly, it will continue this way through 2O25. The only way you can write off expenses is if you're a full-time freelancer or do extensive freelance work for several clients on a part-time basis. If you want to write off expenses incurred and you're a W-2 employee, forget it, it's been outlawed.

True, but the standard deduction is now so high that it would take about 5,000 magazine subscriptions to reach that point anyway.

 

[SixToe]

I always tried to get thinclads in a story at least once. Bad, yes, but it made me laugh and I didn't write often about track and field.

Don't forget about the matmen during rasslin' season!

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Next thing you'll say is to stop using cagers, harriers and gridiron! Or, gasp, thinclads!

Huge fan of harriers.

 

[HanSenSE]

No love for wapolos?

 

[Jake from State Farm]

I always tried to get thinclads in a story at least once. Bad, yes, but it made me laugh and I didn't write often about track and field.

Don't forget about the matmen during rasslin' season!

Which do you prefer, tankers or natators?
We had an old-time wire editor in Marquette who always used solos and feted in headlines

 

[SixToe]

Feted is good.

Solons is another good one for government stories.