Wednesday, 15 July 2009

EXTENSIVE COVERAGE

Cricket folk visiting this site who are not regular readers of the local Press should be made aware that there's a wealth of info on our favourite sport in the Grimsby Telegraph, the Scunthorpe Telegraph and the Lincolnshire Echo. Quite a deal of which is penned by 'yours truly' - even though he's no longer on the staff.
A resume of the highlights of Lincs League matches, with scores, is written on Sunday morning and emailed to the respective sports desks, whose action photographers will have been out and about at previous day's games.
On Tuesday, once the scorecards have arrived, we pen lengthy reports of matches (more than 2,000 words - sometimes 3,000), generally mentioning batsmen who score above 30 and bowlers who manage two, three or more wickets.
And finally...there's the preview of matches, written for use each Friday - outlining the games to watch over the forthcoming weekend, with an up-to-date fixture list.
Supporting the reports are league tables and averages.
Some of our output also finds its way onto the newspapers' websites.
My old employer, the Scunthorpe Telegraph, has long devoted a couple of pages to the match reports on a Thursday, which looks superb - accompanied by action pictures from staff photographers Katie Lunn, David Haber and Paul Torrie.
Call me a bit of a dinosaur, if you will, but to me seeing things in print, in a newspaper, has something all of its own. As you may have gathered, I love to pore over old scorecards in fading, yellow-coloured newspapers from decades ago. To me it's not quite the same looking at things on a computer screen.

1 comment:

  1. pity the telegraph website has no Lincs league results or reports online from last weekend.

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