Big Money? The Future Is In Sportswriting.

ESPN AND YAHOO have been recruiting sportswriting talent to fill their growing enterprises. And they pay bigtime, apparently (by journalism standards at least): $150,000 to $350,000, and a $3 million per year to Rick Reilly.Click on the blue to read the full sto...

Andy Reid: The Time Is Mine

SO, ANDY REID AND his wife spoke to Philadelphia Magazine about their troubled family (You remember their sons, right? They made front page news when they were busted with guns and drugs.).The mag has been receiving a lot of hype - the Reid's haven't spoken about their family with any other media."These parents have been dealing with it for five years, trying whatever seemed to make sense to help," said Robert Huber, the author of the Philly mag...

Ladies In The Locker Room.

FOX SIDELINE reporter Pam Oliver reported that Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb told her that he doesn't expect to be an Eagle next year."His days in Philadelphia are numbered," she reported. "He sees an organization distancing itself from him."McNabb has denied saying anything of the sort.Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist Ashley Fox says that McNabb may have opened up to Oliver because she is a woman.This is from Fox's column today:"Now, as...

How About A Little News Before Your Pop Idol?

EVEN THE BBC NEWS is having trouble retaining an audience these days. And to solve the riddle of declining viewership, the chairman of the BBC Trust is mandating changes to appease those who are too impatient to watch the full news programs. A 90-second news update will precede primetime programming in Great Britain."BBC news and current affairs must be made more accessible to 'low-approving' viewers," The Times of London wrote, paraphrasing the...

Are Journalists Newsworthy?

CBS3 ANCHOR ALYCIA LANE allegedly punched a cop in NYC and was arrested.The blogs and newspapers are going crazy - Lane has been a regular in the gossip columns ever since she allegedly sent photos of herself in a bikini to ESPN anchor Rich Eisen.So the arrest story is making news in Philly. But CB3 hasn't acknowledged the arrest. There has been nothing on their website, and they didn't mention her on today's newscasts.What should they do? Do they...

A Fake Mag Cover Is The Best of 2007?

DICK CHENEY NEVER posed for Texas Monthly magazine, but this cover was considered to be the best of the year by TIME magazine.It's a fake, a computer-generated photo illustration - one that mimics a 1973 National Lampoon magazine (right). Do you have any problems with a fake image being saluted by a major journalistic outlet like TI...

Do You Really Want To Be A Journalist?

A PBS FILM CREW followed the staff of Penn State University's student newspaper, The Daily Collegian, for one year. The documentary airs on Tuesday on PBS.Watch it. It sounds fascinating - the students deal with all the various difficulties (and triumphs) of professional journalists."The thing I love about newspapers is you have," one student says, "to do the work they give you every day, and every day is a new opportunity to do that.""My favorite part of school was working at the paper. My senior year, I realized that. Our lives were the Collegian....

If You Moo, Don't Go To Sunbury, PA.

A PAIR OF ROAMING cows couldn't be corralled, so cops in Sunbury, PA shot them.And journalists documented the entire scene. The image above graced the front page of Sunbury's Daily Item. Some people complained.Should the newspaper have run the image of the animal's death on the front page? Is it the job of the newspaper to highlight what happened, or should the newspaper save the gratuitously graphic image for inside the pap...

He's Back. But Should He Be?

ABOUT EIGHT MONTHS after being removed from the airwaves, Don Imus returned.“I will never say anything in my lifetime that will make any of these young women at Rutgers regret or feel foolish that they accepted my apology and forgave me,” he said on his new show on WABC yesterday. “And no one else will say anything on my program that will make anyone think I did not deserve a second chance.”He had been fired from CBS in April after referring to the...

Does Flickr + PhotoShop = Journalism?

THE ASBURY PARK PRESS wrote an article critical of Governor Jon Corzine's financial restructuring plan. And to illustrate the article, the Press created a photo illustration of Corzine peddling items like a common street hood.Corzine is upset."To put it mildly, he was not a happy camper," a Corzine administration official told the New York Times on the condition on anonymity.His chief of staff wrote a letter to the editor stating: While working with...