By R.L. Bynum Wilkerson-New leaves newspapers to run UNC-focused website With many good journalists laid off by newspapers every year and others lured out by buyouts, it’s nice when some can go out on their own terms and on their own timetable. Being still fairly young and having digital skills beyond what was expected of… Read more »
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Media Musings: SportsChannel8: The Radio Show headed to weekdays
by R.L. Bynum “SportsChannel 8: The Radio Show” moving to weekdays on 99.9 How would it sound if you converted a group text thread among sports-obsessed friends into a voice conversation and put it on the radio? For the last 15 months, that answer has come Saturday mornings on WCMC (99.9 The Fan) with “SportsChannel… Read more »
Media Musings: Rodrigue Covering The Same Team For A New Team
By R.L. Bynum Rodrigue brings passion to Carolina Panthers beat The passion for her craft is evident as Jourdan Rodrigue discusses a sports writing career that advanced to an NFL beat years before she expected. You can tell that she approaches life with plenty of introspection. And it’s obvious that the native Arizonan loves storytelling… Read more »
Media Musings: Young Pope Grows From Hurricanes Fan to Hawks Beat Writer
by R.L. Bynum Raleigh’s Pope gets major professional beat right out of college Ben Pope had just graduated from Northwestern and was about four hours into a 13-hour drive back home to Raleigh when he got a call that would start his post-college sports writing career on an uncommon trajectory. A three-month “residency” covering high… Read more »
Media Musings: HighSchoolOT.com Growing Its Footprint
By R. L. Bynum HighSchoolOT.com expanding to Triad, Charlotte areas The media landscape has dramatically changed since HighSchoolOT.com launched in August 2008 with Nick Stevens as its only staff member. The Capitol Broadcasting Company website also has evolved, and it announced last week expansion to the Triad and Charlotte areas. “As other media companies pull… Read more »
Media Musings: After Initial Resistance, The Athletic’s Gluck Stuck With NASCAR
By R.L. Bynum The Athletic’s Gluck loved covering NASCAR once he gave it a chance It is a typical travel day for Jeff Gluck. On this particular Thursday, he takes a long flight from his Portland, Ore., home to Newark Liberty International Airport, then hops into a rental car and drives to Pocono Raceway in… Read more »
Media Musings: Michael Smith Reports From the Eye of the Hurricanes
By R.L. Bynum As the Canes’ in-house reporter, Smith stays busy No writer has better access to the Carolina Hurricanes than Michael Smith. As the team’s senior web producer/writer, he’s most visible as its in-house reporter and co-host with Mike Maniscalco of the weekly “CanesCast” podcast, as well as sometimes offering insights on TV, video… Read more »
SportsChannel8: The Interviews with Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon
After sweeping the Islanders last Friday night, Canes owner Tom Dundon was riding so high that he forget to thoroughly vet his media contacts and somehow ended up on SportsChannel8: The Radio Show. We covered a LOT: from this Canes squad and its head coach to youth hockey to the AT&T Byron Nelson to frat… Read more »