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About 5 years into my sports writing career, I went back to school to explore the teaching route. A couple months of that with some student teaching involved quickly showed me that following in my father's footsteps was not my cup of tea.

Echoing the same plan as many here with time to finally focus in on some feature ideas that the typical prep cycle doesn't allow until the summer months. My office also put out the mandate for reporters to be working from home and utilizing phone and email for interview purposes.

Offer freelance work and see if you can edge in the door that way. In this present situation, it may require offering a less-than-market rate, since many papers are no longer taking on any freelance work. Still, the best way to force your way in if you want it. When an opening comes up, it gives...

Why the delay? Get stuff up on social and web as quickly as you are able. Is it a company policy or something?

Our paper made a similar moves years ago. At first I was concerned, but really in the digital age, you decide what your deadline is. Think of yourself as an online news source for the community and promote it that way. If you choose, you can get game stories up the same night/next morning...

I recently was reduced to a one-man department with 10 high schools and a junior college in my area. It forced me to get creative in gathering results and to realize not everything is going to get in with only 40 hours available in the week. Heck, even with a 2-person staff that was difficult...

Get in touch with your area coaches and statisticians about sending you results after games. For basketball, I email each coach with the request and drop my card by each scorer's table early in the season. Quite a few are fantastic about texting/emailing the book immediately after games, others...

We are pushing our readership to view us as a news outlet, embracing our online presence, social media role and the print product.

We have to rethink our business model when we are trying to hire full-time workers for $20-$25K. Geesh.

In my neck of the woods, we have high school water polo ... fairly popular although it is club status. With staff cutbacks that has been the sport that has been the biggest after thought in the new reality. Late in the season, one team's parents start piping up with their 'no coverage'...

How much overtime pay do you have to allocate to this project?

In Oregon, prep football has gone to a state ranking system quite a few years back and since then most leagues have split into divisions. The result being that the non conference games are every bit as important as the league games as far as landing a spot in the playoff bracket. Most teams here...

The Mary Tyler Moore Show is classic and ground breaking, but the early seasons with Valerie Harper as Rhoda are the best right from the pilot episode.

I typically charge $125/assignment which includes story and photos. I'll agree to do it for a slight discount if it's an event I'm going to be attending anyway. Most ridiculous offer I had was for an out-of-town football game ... $20 story and photos. Um, no thanks. That doesn't pay my gas to...

We haven't all done that. I never have.

It's a miracle if you can get Gannett to take on an assignment. But yes, those rates are absurd. If I see it's a Gannett paper I just pass on even offering most times. I remember checking their website to purchase one of their photos years back and it was a ridiculously high price.

Yes, that rate works out to about $200+ per story given that they are asking for multiple sources (as they should). Seems like a more than healthy rate for me. My question would be what is the rate for photography?

I'm available to cover the 2019 Little League Softball World Series ... Aug. 7-14 at Alpenrose Dairy in Portland, OR. I am a Sports Editor just east of Portland, who makes myself available for this event each summer. Photos and stories included in my freelance rate.

Memorial Day deadlines meant that our print edition coverage for state track got bumped an issue down the road. So here comes the call Monday morning with a parent intent on getting out his entire rant, despite me breaking in several times and calmly assuring him coverage was already online and...

The obsession with football. But I tend to agree...I'd rather cover a game or feature a player participating in the pro day, rather than covering the pro day as an event.