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

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

The NYPost seems to do it.

Does the Pittsburgh Post Gazette?

 

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!

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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