Wattpad brings you a guest post originally published in Teen Ink:
Sports Writer, Will McDonough
Will McDonough is a veteran journalist with 40 years of service at the Boston Globe newspaper. He is one of the few sports writers to cover the NFL, MLB, NHL and NBA on a regular basis. He is the five-time Massachusetts Sports writer of the Year. From 1986-1997 McDonough was on television, four years with CBS and eight with NBC. He was nominated for an Emmy in sports reporting. In 1984, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. He has won numerous writing awards and has attended all 33 Super Bowls.
How did you start your career in journalism? How much did you get paid for your first article?
I was a student at Northeastern University in Boston. They have a co-operative form of education where you go to school for five years. At the start of my junior year, one of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department for the rest of college, six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer. As for a salary, I got 50¢ per inch, which ended up being around seven dollars per article in college. I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.
Where do you see sports reporting going with the Internet?
This has me concerned, because when I started at the Globe 40 years ago,there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two.