Are you interested in sports reporting? Would you like to learn how to interview college and professional athletes? Would you like to cover a Buffalo Bisons game at Dunn Tire Park and learn the ropes of a sports reporter?

If you answered yes to any of these questions then send an email to mattykwmcb@yahoo.com explaining what kind of sports reporting that you want to get into and exactly what you want to learn.

Matty K

WMCB Sports Director

Mattykwmcb@yahoo.com

In past weeks I have talked about the different job positions in newspaper offices.Positions included design, editing, writing, and photography. Today, I will mention another, advertising.

Many newspapers, especially those that are free, run primarily on advertising revenue. There for, daily and weekly newspapers hire a lot of advertising representatives.

Working as an advertising representative for a newspaper is a good opportunity, it has the ability to strengthen ones communication, networking, and sales skills. If you excel at selling advertisements, it is very rewarding, as most newspaper pay advertising reps a salary and commission on what they sell.

The neat part of advertising is that you are exposed to a variety of personalities, and learn a great deal about the different types of business that are world is made up of.

Also, selling advertisements allows you to be creative like most other newspaper positions. For example, if an advertising representative is accustomed to using Adobe software they can not only sell the advertisements but design them too. Designingthem allows you to be creative, and once you build relationships with your clients you get a feel for what message they are trying to convey with their advertisement and you can design it for them.

Advertising is a great opportunity because it allows you to strengthen so many areas, not to mention that it can be very enjoyable if you like meeting new people. And what can be better then getting paid for how hard you work? The more sale calls you make the more customers your are likely to have and the more commission you have to make.

Summer Gemmati

The next radio station meeting for WMCB will be held on Feb. 25 at 12:30 p.m. All communications and non-communications majors welcome so feel free to bring your friends. Star Search, individual radio shows, and sports reporting will all be discussed.