Sports editor, Martinsville (Va.) Bulletin.

Martinsville gets zero real competition from either Landmark daily. When I first started at the N&R, I was working out of our Rockingham County bureau, and the business editor sent me to Martinsville to help out on a story about a textile plant closing. (Yes, boys and girls, gather around the campfire and let Uncle John tell you about the time when Martinsville had jobs.) Since then, the N&R's forays north of the border were to do lottery story when the pot hit nine digits. Now that N.C. has its own lottery, the only time we go past Ridgeway on official N&R business is when there's a Cup race at the speedway.

I don't think Roanoke's ever has had a Martinsville bureau. The Times has offices in Richmond and Christianburg only, iirc.

I'll take it on faith that we still sell papers up there. Circulation has scaled back in so many areas that I'm stunned we still truck the N&R that far north.

 

This place has finally named a sports editor.

 

Who? If they have one, there's no harm in revealing the name.

 

It is my understanding that Ian Melmood has been named Sports Editor.

 

Don't know him, but good luck, Ian, if you read this.

 

Ian, run the show the way you want to run it. Have fun, too.

 

Ian, good luck. You're going to need it with those clowns.

 

Tar, the guy has been there for a minute. This is not directored towards you but news of his becoming SE isn't new.

 

What, exactly, are you trying to say?

 

The post is pretty direct. The guy has been there for a while and his being named SE isn't new news.

 

They didn't just hire a blogger, they hired a glogger!!!

 

Excuse my ignorance/threadjack: What's a gloggger?