Another one to ESPN

So will these jobs at ESPN, Yahoo, Rivals, SI, etc. be all dried up and filled by the time someone that just graduated college gets the necessary experience to get them?

Then again I also have to have the necessary talent.......

 

Hell, just be glad the web behemoths haven't put all the newspapers out of business yet.

 

Whoa. There's a bomb drop.

Well ... Pat certainly knows the NFC South, his coverage of the Panthers preceding the latest NFL realignment. Best of everything to Pat, who has had his finger on the pulse in Charlotte for a while.

I wonder if Stan Olson is simply moved up to the lead writer, and who becomes the backup. Is Charles Chandler still with the Observer?

 

pat's a good man and used to work in tampa. good for him... 8) 8) 8)

 

Pat's a great guy and this is a loss, for sure, for Charlotte. ...

As for replacing him, I don't think Charlotte will have to far ... to be totally reckless, I don't think they'll have to look outside the company family or the metro area for his replacement.

 

Congratulations on your impending promotion.

 

You're hired in five years!

In my opinion, I doubt many of these places are filling from outside. They will shake things up within the paper to not create an opening.

I could be wrong.

 

there will always be turnover in any industry. people retire, die, go to law school, go into PR, go from espn to si and back again. new media outlets will come and go. the jobs will still be there to the extent that they're there today - few and far between but there.

the other thing about these jobs is that unlike with a newspaper, a web site has an infinite amount of space. theoretically if espn desperately wants you in five years and someone else is already covering the nfc south, they can still hire you.

who knows, maybe espn, si.com and yahoo will eventually hire beat writers for every team in every league.

 

Charlotte and Rock Hill are owned by McClatchy and they've been doubling up on Panthers coverage. It's just a guess, but I'd think the overseers would say this is a golden opportunity to consolidate. The State backed off full-time Panthers coverage two years ago and I think the McClatchy papers north of Charlotte are scaling back as well.

 

BTW ... McClatchy stock price = yummy