Margaret Banks, assistant sports editor
Margaret Banks, our city hall reporter and veteran Inside Scooper, is making the leap to the dark side. She's becoming our assistant sports editor. (Listen as editors across the country go screaming out into the night!)
Margaret is ready. She has covered city hall for nearly two years and has also been a religion reporter, a general assignment reporter and a reporter in Rockingham County. No direct sports coverage experience? We're in interesting times and that calls for interesting experiences. She's got 'em.
And for everyone who thinks we have a Tar Heel blue tint, she graduated from UNCG.
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Good luck to Margaret. I'm sure the gentlemen on your sports staff will be most supportive, Eddie Hardin in particular. And our most sincere condolences on Jeff's death.
Posted on February 25, 2008 3:21 PM
NO! NO! NO!
We'll not stand for it.
We'll picket.
We'll march.
We'll boycott.
Good luck Margaret.
Posted on February 25, 2008 4:13 PM
That's too bad. Margaret was very good on her city hall beat and knew how to make the topic blog-interesting.
Maybe better pay and hours are in store for Margaret, but I hope some greenhorn isn't next in line for her old job.
Posted on February 25, 2008 4:26 PM
That's too bad. Margaret was very good on her city hall beat and knew how to make the topic blog-interesting.
Hmmmmmmmm maybe Margret was a little to good, I find this move a little troubling.
Posted on February 25, 2008 5:58 PM
Beau,
My thoughts exactly.
Posted on February 26, 2008 8:45 AM
JR,
You call it going over to the dark side, we over at sports call it "seeing the light."
Jim
Posted on February 26, 2008 4:35 PM
The dark side was a reference to management, not to sports.
Posted on February 26, 2008 4:52 PM
Guys, thanks for saying all the nice things. I've still got a few days to write more stories on the city beat, and I have a few big ones brewing (she said ominously).
Beau, Billy: Awww, you're afraid I was pushed out. That's sweet. But don't fear: I'm about to move to a job that virtually REQUIRES me to watch afternoon Braves games on TV (a TV, I might add, that will face my desk once I ask the building maintenance people to move my desk one-quarter turn). I'm not exactly kicking and screaming.
Posted on February 26, 2008 5:21 PM
For Margaret - I will miss you very much. Maybe I can go to a couple of games with you and gossip.Thank you for your authenticity and common sense. I wish you the very best in everything. Sandra
Posted on February 27, 2008 12:00 PM
Hey Margaret.......see if you can convince the department that "motorsports" does not automatically equate to "NASCAR".
Let me know if you need help. I'm a veteran at that type of newspaper battle.
Posted on February 27, 2008 4:27 PM
Sandra, thanks for the nice words. I'll definitely miss you guys.
Bubba, I'm letting you know right now: I need your HELP! You worked in motorsports, if I'm remembering correctly, right? Maybe you can help me learn about that.
Posted on February 27, 2008 5:35 PM
You got it.
Drop me an email.
Posted on February 27, 2008 7:27 PM
So I guess that means Ed Hardin stays, huh? Oh well..
Posted on March 4, 2008 8:55 PM
More soccer coverage. Local Olympians. And watch out for Duke football next year.
And congratulations.
Posted on March 6, 2008 8:54 PM
Margaret Banks is a first rate objective reporter and I offer her my best wishes in her new sports position. Being a UNCG grad is a real plus for her too: I was UNCG 68 (among the first males to graduate).
Posted on May 6, 2008 11:13 PM