Recent content by BillySixty

The appeal of The Athletic, at least to me, is that I pay for one subscription, and I get some pretty cool, insightful content about programs and teams I may not follow on a day-to-day basis, but still want to know more about if they had a big day (sprung an upset on a college football Saturday...

Does your design hub edit and fit wire stories for you or is it your responsibility to do that? Or do you not have wire stories?

As more and more newspaper groups are going to regional design centers, I'm curious as how this has changed roles in your department. Specifically, I'm wondering if there are any people in your department who are 100 percent chained to the desk. Not reporters who sometimes work the desk or...

Prior to the Journal Sentinel acquisition, the Gannett Wisconsin papers got their Badgers coverage through an agreement with the Wisconsin State Journal, which would receive Packers coverage. That deal expired not long after the JS joined the Gannett family. The Gannett papers use the Journal...

Bringing this thread back to life out of curiosity ... does anyone know of sports sections who have a fairly early deadline? Say, the 8-10 p.m. range? I'm wondering how they are facing this challenge.

Couldn't agree more. After hitting my article limit following the events in Dallas, Nice and then Turkey, I (gasp) bought an online subscription. Incredible value. The writing and reporting are superb, and they have reporters everywhere. Fantastic stuff.

I appreciate all the comments. It's funny to me that some of you would run gamers from SIDs and not features. I think gamers tend to show SID bias way more than features. Most of the time, there's only one way to play a typical "Hey, this guy/gal is doing some good things" while gamers have...

If the options were running a SID feature or nothing at all, would you take nothing at all?

Not trying to pick a fight here, but why isn't it right? I used to think exactly along those same lines, but then I had my staff shred to pieces, my budget slashed to next to nothing, and more and more responsibility shoved down my throat. If some SID on the other side of the state does a decent...

To clarify, there is no money involved. This would be a feature story written by an SID or someone at the university for publication on their website, university magazine, game program, etc., that was offered to run in your section as well.

Wanted to do an informal poll about running SID copy. I'm not talking about gamers, but rather feature stories. I'm particularly curious if you'd be more likely to run a feature story written by an SID at a school outside of the coverage area for an athlete that went to a local high school then...

Entry-level preps reporter in early to mid 2000s: 27K Sports editor 10K circ paper mid 2000: 33K Sports editor 25K circ paper starting late 2000: 40K All in the same region, all in similar-sized towns. I will say this: Knowing how to diversify (write, design, web) led to better-paying jobs...

For me, it's different from game-to-game. I usually try to have 6-8 inches done by halftime. There are times when I use all of it. There are times when I use none of it. Most of the time, I'll use at least some of it. In the second half, as soon as I'm certain the game has been decided, I'll...

Put me in the group that loves the Kindle. I got one for Christmas last year and use it a ton. Probably my favorite function is that you can download a sample of any book for free. I use it to test out books I may want to purchase later. You can also try samples of newspapers and magazines for...

You are allowed one in your life. Most of us use it up by the time we write our fifth article for the college newspaper.