The Bodycount
Media Gossip/Musings April 22nd. 2008, 1:05pm
The recognizable names in sports journalism continue to leave the print industry at an alarming rate: Gordon Edes, perhaps the most significant baseball voice in New England after Peter Gammons, is close to leaving the Boston Globe for Yahoo Sports.
Does this t-shirt have a modicum of truth? Obviously not, but when you look at this list of prominent journalists who have left the newspaper industry in the last year for whatever reason (magazines, online, buyouts, etc) … yikes. Obviously we have missed a few folks – either email us or drop them in the comments and we’ll add to the list.
JA Adande (Los Angeles Times) to ESPN
TJ Quinn (NY Daily News) to ESPN
Jorge Arangure (Washington Post) to ESPN
Mark Schlabach (Washington Post) to ESPN
Howard Bryant (Washington Post) to ESPN
Pat Yasinskas (Charlotte Observer) to ESPN
Mark Fainaru-Wada (San Fran Chronicle) to ESPN
Murray Chass (New York Times) took a buyout
Sam Smith (Chicago Tribune) took a buyout
Kevin Blackistone (Dallas Morning News) took a buyout
Jackie MacMullan (Boston Globe) took a buyout
Jason King (Kansas City Star) to Yahoo Sports
Jason Cole (Miami Herald) to Yahoo Sports
Adrian Wojnarowski (Bergen Record) to Yahoo Sports
Tim Brown (LA Times) to Yahoo Sports
Selena Roberts (New York Times) to Sports Illustrated
Lee Jenkins (New York Times) to Sports Illustrated
David DuPree (USA Today) to SI.com
Alex Marvez (Sun-Sentinel) to Fox Sports
David Aldridge (Philadelphia Inquirer) to TNT Sports
Lisa Olson (New York Daily News) to ?
Dan LeBatard (Miami Herald) took “a year off”
Stephen A. Smith (Philadelphia Inquirer) was let go; is in litigation
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April 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I thought we were against lists…
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Soon the mainstream media will pick this up and turn it into a “top ten newspaper departures” column or package.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
damn, CRM, we wrote at the same time. This is a list, but I don’t consider it a true “list” because TBL didn’t try to rank them in order of importance. In this case, the list tells a lot because it’s pretty damn long.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Yahoo! sports seems to have the best lineup (considering they also have Dan Wetzel who is one of the top 3 in the buis.)
MY top five are:
1)Wetzel
2)LeBatard
..Oh right my bad
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Checks and balances.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
TBL pulls out the obscure Cream “Goodbye” LP.
+10
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Rick Reilly left SI to go to ESPN. SI wasnt a newspaper, but i think it goes with this list
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Good point. Will change the title.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Eh…I still make a Christmas Bodycount every year.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
/John McClane
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I thought Schlabach was from the AJC, not the Post???
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Never mind – I wiki’d him, and you were right TBL. He spent 2 years at the Post before going to ESPN. How could I ever doubt you?
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I didnt know Schlabach was from WaPo. Would have liked to read him if I actually had the paper delivered.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
What about when my local alternative weekly dropped “News of the Weird”?
That was bullshit!
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
@TBL – totally off topic, but are you going to watch the Liverpool/Chelsea game here in a couple hours? If so, can you give updates?
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Fuck Liverpool…and Fuck Chelsea some more.
uefa.com has a great gamecast sportsgal
/ Arsenal Fan
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Good to know that irony is still alive and well in t-shirt form. In your face Shakespeare.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Are any of these not sportswriters?
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:27 pm
sportsgal…doesnt there need to be scoring for updates?
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
spencer +1
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
@spence – good point.
Why the hell didn’t I work from home today? I’m such a hungover, tired idiot.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
You can work from home, yet you decided to take public transportation to work?
I’m such a hungover, tired idiot.
oh ok, you’ve redeemed yourself.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
One of the guys that wrote the Barry Bonds left the SF paper (SF Chronicle maybe?) to join ESPN. It was either Mark Fainaru-Wada or the other guy.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Clown, I’ve must have missed your posts before, but damn that’s a scary photo…
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
this is not a National name, but the best Baseball writer from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Drew Olson, left for OnWisconsin.com
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Do you know time and channel? I will consider it, though i had the gym scheduled for 5 pm (beat that after-work rush)
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:50 pm
@xv43- if you read the post, TBL says sports journalists.
here is your sign
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
@gonzo – I can sometimes work from home, but I HATE taking my laptop home because it weighs a ton and is a pain in the ass to set up at home. I was running late for the Cubs game and didn’t even think about how I’d be consuming mass quantities of old style while I was trying to finish up my work, so I left it at the office.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Good one, Benji. Added
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
@TBL – I think the game starts at 3pm eastern, it’s on ESPN.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Yeah, thats rough taking home a laptop on the train. Good call Gal.
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:09 pm
@gonzo – Listen Captain Sarcasm, I don’t need this from you today!! ha ha!
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
No jokes about TBL and his guns?
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
We declared a moratorium on TBL biceps jokes. It was for the greater good.
[All] The greater good.
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Jason Whitlock to…..
just a matter of time
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:32 pm
How about adding Pedro Gomez of ESPN who, after leaving San Francisco last fall, and hasn’t been seen since
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Pedro Gomez left print media in Phoenix. He used to write for the Arizona Republic.
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:37 pm
@irish – I’m merely trying to make the point that a lot of these newspaper exoduses (exodi?) seem to be sportswriters, and it doesn’t necessarily indicate the death of the newspaper, just its sports section.