Really Late: Coley Harvey Leaving Macon Telegraph

Somehow we missed this, but Coley Harvey is moving on from the Macon Telegraph to The Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun-Sentinel to cover Florida State athletics. I may have never got the chance to meet Coley, but I think I speak for all when I say he will be missed as GT beat writers have been pretty much a revolving door around these parts.

I won't say that going from covering GT to FSU is a step up, but hey, at least he'll get some free shoes right? Honestly though, I wish nothing but the best for Coley Harvey and understand career changing decisions. I suggest all to go read his farewell linked above and Coley, don't wear the soles out on those new shoes too quickly! Good luck!

12 months ago Jesse28 3 comments 0 recs |

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My guess

is that Coley got tired of waiting for McClatchy to promote him to a bigger paper. The job at the Sun-Sentinel is basically the same job he had for the Telegraph, in that he will focus on a single college athletic program. The difference is the market size of the paper and the opportunity to have much more of his writing linked.

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

by orientalnc on Jun 7, 2011 4:00 PM EDT reply actions

Yeah, this is def. a promotion

But I wouldn’t say he got tired of waiting. I’d say he was just sending his feelers out like all hard workers do.

Also, he’s only, what, 26? 28, tops? He’ll be on to bigger things soon enough. Great talent, sad to see him go.

Also, Jesse, you must not have been following him on Twitter, because all of his tweets switched to FSU tweets about the time we fired CPH.

by Portmanteur on Jun 7, 2011 6:03 PM EDT up reply actions

Agreed on the promotion aspect

The Sentinel is definitely in a bigger market and has a larger readership than what the Macon Telegraph caters to. I hope my friendly ribbing didn’t come across as a demeaning comment on his choice to move on.

I haven’t been following him on Twitter. In fact, I’m not really a Twitter person. I use Facebook randomly and not with any set frequency. I’m thinking this clearly needs to change.

"You could spend the next fifteen seconds of your life watching a man and a tiger scream together, or you could be an idiot."
Fact.

by Jesse28 on Jun 7, 2011 9:36 PM EDT up reply actions

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