When to start sending resumes

It's like having your lede figured out before asking a source questions and then getting pissed at the source for not answering to fit your story.

Sometimes you just have to go with the flow.

Not everything in life comes up roses, but I guess it is OK to just flip out and then be a flip-flopper and say you aren't flipping out.

Sheeiiit.

 

but jeeez, 'gola, if you don't know your lede before you leave the office, how can you ever make deadline?

 

Hey, they don't have a problem with deadline. Don't you have any reading comprehension skills?

 

{starting to cry} no, i really don't. i really don't. {/still weeping}

 

Well when I left college I was handed a job and also given an NFL beat. All with a company lexus and a lackey to take notes for me.

 

As an f---in' stud, you deserved all of that and more. Shit, you never should have spent a day covering preps. None of the recent grads should have to. They should just ignore the vets advice about how much this business is going into the crapper and then cry when told it might not be the best time to be looking at this industry.

After they are done crying, then they can start cussing at the respected folks on this site for giving answers they didn't want to hear.

That there is the ticket.

 

You guys are dicks.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go write a column comparing Matt Millen's ability as a linebacker to Joe Dumars' proficiency as a two-guard.

 

Legitimate, non-whiny question: If I went to a team web site - like an NBA.com or MLB.com - does that kind of blacklist me from cracking back into newspapers later, if I wanted to? I know people on news side, for instance, can go from newspapers to PR easily but have trouble going from PR to newspapers.

 

See, this is what I mean. Where did I ever say I expect to get things handed to me on a silver platter or skip over paying my dues to move up? If you got that impression, you were reading my comments wrong.

And I'm the one flipping out.

Flame on, though.

 

If you can go to a .com covering a pro sport, man (or woman), go for it. You may run into some yellow tape -- higher-ups not happy with your tone or that you dig into a certain topic -- but I wouldn't look back. The shit there, I would think, sure smells better than some of the shit in newspapers.

 

I don't think you'd be blacklisted. If you don't have any newspaper experience, it, obviously, puts you back in a job competition with someone that does -- when you are applying at a newspaper.

But I know of multiple papers that have recently hired kids that interned at MLB.com this past summer.

 

Agreed. You're still writing, reporting, dealing with sources, etc. Play that up.