http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/sports...Mike Lupica’s future as the high-profile sports columnist of The Daily News was in doubt Wednesday when the tabloid laid off several sportswriters and its managing editor for sports.The sports department was heavily hit on a day when people across the paper’s newsroom were fired....
Bill Madden, the longtime national baseball columnist, was laid off, as were Filip Bondy, Wayne Coffey, Roger Rubin, Hank Gola and Stephen Lorenzo. Teri Thompson, the assistant managing editor for sports, was also dismissed. She oversaw the sports department’s investigations team.
Surprised there has been no chatter given the slow news coming out of our Knicks.
Whether you like any of them or not, the fact is we'll have less to read from quality sources - though I can well imagine they will get picked up by new players like Yahoo, etc.
isola survived. it's like he's the only "name" guy they kept. interesting.
Papers are dying, in its place are Yahoo and others. Online sources fill its place making income streams difficult for traditional content producers at the papers.
The democracy benefited from investigational journalism. Woodward and Bernstein of the Washington Post broke Watergate. Important? Hell yeah!, a president abused his powers and was caught!
Sports are less important.
Problem is Local presence does influence the elective process and its important even in smaller town America that the checks and balances of the media to keep the legislative body in check and accountable for their actions.
Cutting education in favor of arenas? Cutting health, food for needy, etc........all need be presented to the public!
bondy should have been gone a long time ago.
