We welcome a new staff member
Chris Wallace, a graduate of A&T in 2003, signed on with us to cover community sports.
He has been in our pages before, as a sports stringer. He is the former sports editor at A&T's campus newspaper, the Register, and he worked as an intern at the Lexington Dispatch. He also has helped some sports teams, including the Panthers, in media relations roles.
He's got great community ties. He has been a teacher at the Hayes-Taylor YMCA; he helped with the National Youth Sports Program; and he has been a tutor with the Black Child Development Institute in Greensboro.
Chris will be covering the multitude of community sports in the Triad. Please welcome him.
Comments (3)
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Welcome, Chris. I look forward to reading your work, and I hope you will take part in the N&R's sports blog, SportsExtra.
Posted on January 7, 2005 9:45 AM
I didn't catch the URL for Chris's own blog, but I can't wait to see it. The community sports beat is a prime example of a Long Tail product -- a reporter freed from the space constraints of print can post lots of items that are of intense interest to small groups of people. Many small groups of people are thus drawn to the N&R site. Meanwhile individuals start sending Chris pics and text, he posts the best stuff, the coverage improves and the relationship with the community deepens.
Posted on January 7, 2005 10:26 AM
Chris doesn't have a blog yet, Ed, but it's on his list. We thought we'd get him to learn our computer system first. :)
Posted on January 8, 2005 10:55 PM