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thanks joe. You're certainly right about the small schools being beneficial. I covered a small local private school yesterday who gets maybe 4-5 stories a season in our paper, but their coach/player gave me some of the best quotes. The hours/money may not be the best in the world, but I...

Being the low man on the totem pole is definitely humbling, but something I expected being the new guy. Out of the six schools our paper covers, I'm usually asked to cover the two bottom feeders on Tuesday/Friday and the local community college on Saturday. I'm just grateful for the opportunity...

Thanks everyone for responses so far! Thank you for the very helpful insight. I particularly like the point you made regarding making contacts and being versatile. I job shadowed my newspaper when I was a senior in high school but made sure to keep in contact with the head sports editor. He is...

thanks guys! I really appreciate it

Hi everyone! After being a stringer for the past four months for my local paper, I was hired as a staff employee and scheduled to work 16 hours a week (I'm a 19-year-old college student) covering prep sports. I guess my biggest question is if anyone with newspaper experience can give me some...