‘Sporting News Today’ to debut Wednesday
As you read this, I’m busy toiling away in beautiful uptown Charlotte, N.C — just a couple blocks away from the NFL stadium there — on the first edition of the new daily sports e-paper that debuts Wednesday.
It’s called Sporting News Today. And if you’re into sports, I think you’ll like it. The sample pages are terrific.
And you can’t beat the price: It’s free. Sign up here. You’ll receive a fresh link in your morning e-mail. One click pulls up the paper in your browser. You can read it on screen, print it out — whatever you like.
It’s a really cool new business model, just when we need a fresh one. It’ll be a blast making it work.
I’ve not seen it yet, but someone told me USA Today did a piece today on our publication. The NYT published a story last month.
They’re still moving people in and around, here in our building — they’ve hired a lot of talented editors and reporters away from papers across the country. For example, I sit next to the talented Lisa Pazdric, recently laid off from the Charlotte Observer, who started work the same day I did. Plus, they moved a number of Sporting News veterans here from that publication’s former headquarters in St. Louis.
Because of this — believe it or not — I am temporarily situated smack in the middle of the IT help desk. I’ll pause for laughter from those of you who know how famously unskilled I am in technical matters. I’m told we’ll be moved to permanent cubes in a month or so.
On a personal note, my wife and daughter helped find me a temporary apartment in Rock Hill, a half-hour or so south of Charlotte, where I lived for many years in the 1980s and 1990s. They zipped home last week for some furniture and helped me get set up this weekend. We went out househunting for the first time Monday. We’ll buy something as soon as we sell our condo in Virginia Beach.
Sharon and Elizbeth headed back first thing this morning. They’ll be back in a couple of weeks.
In the meantime, it’s time to start work on our first edition.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:49 am
The most important question for the man working in the middle of the IT desk.
Are you “Mac or PC, Charles?”
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Can’t wait to see what you and Lisa and all those great reporters and editors produce. Will you be limited to what would reproduce well on someone’s printer, or are you free to just plain make it look good on screen?
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Good luck, Chuck!
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Sounds great! Signed up for and eagerly await the new pub.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:44 pm
> Are you “Mac or PC, Charles?â€
Ha! I’m on a brand-spanking-new G5! The first time I’ve used a Mac at work in several years, in fact!
If I never touch another PC as long as I live, I’d be OK with that…
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:53 pm
> Will you be limited to what would
> reproduce well on someone’s printer,
> or are you free to just plain make
> it look good on screen?
Our creative director, Keith Wood, has designed the thing with both in mind. It should read well on a typical monitor. And it should look great out of a color printer.
All art is 300 dpi, by the way, which surprised me. I would have expected 72 dpi.
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:05 pm
A G5?! I hate you. :-(
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:47 pm
I subscribed.
Please rock my world.
clif
July 25th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Just browsed through my first issue of SNT. Wow!
Looks great, reads easily, and the navigation is intuitive and seamless. And how cool is it that you never have to touch scroll bars?
Hope the business model has some legs. Best of luck!
July 25th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Congratulations Charles! I am signed up and can’t wait to see what you and all the other creative people on staff come up with next.