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Public scholarship, rabbit holes, and riffs about sports journalism and sports media, from Dr. Brian Moritz.
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RIP Doug Schneider (opens the original)
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How gambling and online harassment tell the story of modern sports media (opens the original)
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The story made the rounds a week ago. I’ll quote the ESPN version of it, written by David Purdum:The five largest American professional sports leagues and their players’ unions are urging state gambling regulators to combat escalating harassment and violent threats from sports bettors.On one hand …<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https:
“That’s the patriarchy at work.” (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago, The Athletic announced the findings of its internal review of Dianna Russini’s work, which showed that she was “noncompliant” with the outlet’s ethical and editorial standards.To call this anticlimactic would be an insult to actual anticlimaxes everywhere, mainly because it was pretty evident from the moment this story broke that Russini had acted in a way that violated journalism ethics and editorial standards.<a class="f
Extra edition: My 9/11 story (reprise) (opens the original)
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Brian’s note: I wrote the original version of this post back in 2016 at the original Sports Media Guy blog for the 15th anniversary of 9/11. I published it here three years ago, and since there are a lot of you who are new and this is the 25th anniversary, it felt right to bring it back. I updated the text a few spots, where it felt necessary.The best thing you are going to read about 9/11 is this incredible piece in National Geographic by Garrett M. Graff about the 17 minutes in between the pla
Journalism lessons from Pablo Torre’s reporting (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the final scene of All the President’s Men.The movie ends with Woodward and Bernstein in the Washington Post newsroom, each working on stories at their typewriters, while in the background the 1972 Republican National Convention plays on a TV. The audio, as the shot pulls wide on the two reporters typing away, is the announcement at the convention that Richard Nixon had easily won renomination on his way to an easy re-election.All the President’s Men (1976) - Endin
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