The Clarion Ledger, part of the USA Today Network, has hired Michael Chavez as a high school sports reporter. He wrote on X/Twitter:
“Eager to start my first full-time reporting job and can’t wait to get started.”
Chavez joins from The Seattle Times, where he interned as a sports reporter. There, he covered professional teams, the University of Washington football training camp and Northeast Seattle’s Little League World Series run.
Previously, he freelanced as a sports reporter for the Las Cruces Sun-News, part of the USA Today Network, and was a sports anchor at KRWG-TV Ch. 22, a PBS TV station in Las Cruces, N.M.
Chavez has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communications from New Mexico State University.
Be sure to congratulate Chavez on X/Twitter.
