2010 Writer Movement Scorecard

Discussion in 'Business and Media' started by BirdsonFire, Feb 18, 2010.

  1. BirdsonFire

    BirdsonFire Member

    May 9, 2008
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    ESPN
    out
    Ives

    Fox
    in
    Ives

    SI
    out
    Freedman (-d?)
    in
    Wahl (full time)
     
  2. tambo

    tambo Member

    Jun 9, 2007
    Could you elaborate on this part? (Specifically: What is "-d," and do you mean that Wahl is now all soccer -- i.e., no college basketball?)
     
  3. BirdsonFire

    BirdsonFire Member

    May 9, 2008
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    I don't know if his name has a 'd' in it or not. I suppose I could have used (sp?), but...

    Wahl is full time soccer.


    I take Ives' move as a demotion. Smaller potential audience. Freedman's I figure is one too, but I have no idea.
     
  4. geordienation

    geordienation Moderator

    Apr 21, 2001
    Chicago
    Club:
    Newcastle United FC
    Freedman's move to run the coverage for MLSnet is, I think, a good one.

    Certainly more responsibility. And if you're trying to reach soccer fans, the MLS site probably reaches more of them than SI.com. (Not to say SI.com doesn't have reach, it does. But is it the first stop for an MLS fan?)
     
  5. BirdsonFire

    BirdsonFire Member

    May 9, 2008
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    At the moment, Lalas and Freedman moving to MLS' new site has to look like an absolute catastrophe.

    By the way,

    Jen Wang moved from ESPN to SI.
     
  6. tambo

    tambo Member

    Jun 9, 2007
    A lot of people seem happy (or at least schadenfreude-ish) about this big exodus from Soccernet. I actually find it kind of dismaying. I don't like the idea of America's biggest sports news organization having no American soccer writers of note.
     
  7. BirdsonFire

    BirdsonFire Member

    May 9, 2008
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    I'm not a fan of it either.
     
  8. subbuteo

    subbuteo New Member

    Dec 17, 2002
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You mean, Jen Chang

    And Steve Davis is from espn to si
     
  9. Beau Dure

    Beau Dure Member+

    May 31, 2000
    Vienna, VA
    I left USA TODAY -- on a full-time basis, anyway.
     
  10. Donofan_10

    Donofan_10 Red Card

    Aug 20, 2009
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    what's in store for you now?
     
  11. Beau Dure

    Beau Dure Member+

    May 31, 2000
    Vienna, VA
    Free-lancing, another book eventually and sportsmyriad.com
     
  12. BirdsonFire

    BirdsonFire Member

    May 9, 2008
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    danke

    and best of luck beau
     

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