High Schools: Georgia prep football is big business, big bucks

Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal, Mar/Apr 2000 by Fish, Mike

It's also important to clearly define early on what you're seeking in the open-records request. We'd probably have been better served to start with a small sample of a dozen schools to get a better understanding of what kind of information we could expect to get back. Then you can perfect your request for data relatively easily.

Mike Fish has been at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for 10 years as sports projects/investigative reporter. Database editor David Milliron also worked on the project. The AJC package is accessible online at http://www.ajc.com/reports/paydirt