Fanhouse Hires Many More Mainstream Writers, Definitely No Longer a Blog
1-liner, Media Gossip/Musings September 1st. 2009, 3:00pmMedia Musings: AOL Fanhouse, formerly AOL Sports, is definitely no longer a blog. We hear the site has hired nearly half a dozen more mainstream media members. It now has more MSM writers/editors than bloggers. We don’t have an entire list of new acquisitions, but we’ve heard Fanhouse has hired three new editors and Chris Tomasson to cover the NBA, Mick Elliott to cover golf, Michelle Smith to cover women’s sports, and John Walters to cover Notre Dame. Walters left the sinking ship that is NBC Sports.
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September 1st, 2009 at 3:06 pm
AOL Fanhouse, formerly AOL Sports, is definitely no longer a blog. We hear the site has hired nearly half a dozen more mainstream media members
I guess I’m confused about what constitutes a blog if having people who are professionals from the MSM make something no longer a blog. Is the formatting different? Are they writing more feature length pieces? Is it now styled more like an online newspaper? I thought a blog was a type of publishing, but that it was not restricted to certain types of employment. Afterall TBL, were you not still a full time journalist when you started this little corner of the sports interwebs?
September 1st, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Didn’t Walters get laid off from SI.com (when it was then called “CNNSI.com) some years ago?
September 1st, 2009 at 3:18 pm
if you don’t live in your mother’s basement, you aren’t a blogger.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Was Fanhouse ever really a blog? It always felt like a portal of sorts.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:52 pm
You’re a blog.
September 1st, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Guess that’s a good q.
I guess the diff is aol has corporate $ behind it’s hires… Significantly more $ than I’m paying. The again, msm joints are plucking our guys, so maybe were doing something…
September 1st, 2009 at 4:23 pm
it was never really a blog, it just employed bloggers, who, in a general definition, are writers who update a set space regularly with more quick-hitter stories, links to other stories, etc. mariotti, couch, blackistone, etc. are writing more formal, traditional columns.
September 1st, 2009 at 4:45 pm
I stopped reading fanhouse months ago, switching to yahoo blogs (and truehoop and mosley at the .com).
Is it just me or anyone else in the same boat? I don’t even see fanhouse linked that often.
September 1st, 2009 at 11:42 pm
But, but… it’s on the Internet, so it’s not real or have any credibilty, right?