Publisher column: An apology of sorts

Originally, I had another column prepared for this space. But when I found out that I was going to be on the cover of the magazine, I felt compelled to explain myself a bit.

As a guy that’s been in newspapers, on the radio and on TV for the better part of 30 years, I’m not really in search of attention. So, it makes me twitchy to know that my ugly mug is going to be the first thing people see in this month’s edition.

JoCo Sports is a worthy project, though, so I’m going to allow it.

I remember my Shelby days, when we would write season previews for the Cleveland County teams. During the season, there was prep content pretty much every day of the week. We had game stories, sure, but also weekly previews, notebooks, stat leaders, columns, analysis and any other information that a football-mad community would want.

Of course, the modern media landscape is different. In many places, prep coverage is one of the things that has sort of gone out of fashion as staff sizes and circulations dwindle.

We’re hoping to buck that trend with JoCo Sports. You can read more about it a little deeper in this issue, but I just wanted to apologize for the shock of seeing Mike and I on the cover.

Call it exhibit A of why “faces for radio” is a running joke amongst my media friends.