How the other half lives
Taking a break of sorts from my normal duty covering City Council, I'm over at the coliseum today as part of the News & Record's coverage of this month's ACC and NCAA tournaments.
I've never worked as a sports reporter before, so it's definitely interesting to get a peek behind the curtain. One of the things that struck me is the sheer amount of information the reporters receive.
Along with the stacks of media guides located on a table outside the media workroom in the depths of the coliseum, workers in ACC T-shirts dropped off a ream of statistics from Thursday's first game - including a play-by-play tally of how points were scored and who scored them - and quotes from both coaches.
With all that information dropped in your lap, a reporter could probably file a workable game story without moving from their folding chair in the media workroom. (For the record, none of the reporters on hand for Thursday's Virginia-Boston College game did that.)