NY Times exodus to SI continues

If db, I apologize...

From SportsBusinessDaily.com, via Newsday...

One of my favorite reasons to read the NY Times is apparently exiting stage left...

N.Y. Times columnist Selena Roberts is reportedly leaving the paper for SI, which recently lost columnist Rick Reilly to ESPN. ESPN was also “interested in landing Roberts.” Former N.Y. Times writers Damon Hack and Lee Jenkins also were recently hired by SI.

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog/blog/printer.htm

 

The highlight of that link is the Angie Harmon pic.

 

oh my god, all newspapers are going to die because of magazines! magazines!

 

So does this mean NYT promotes Karen Crouse to columnist?

 

AARRGGHH!!

but that makes sense.

 

Boom can't figure out why he all of a sudden fainted.

 

I've been really impressed with the work being done by SI's newbies. Lee Jenkins and Jim Trotter's stories on the practice squad and the bit on how teams decide who plays on special teams really gives SI's coverage a dimension on the NFL that has been missing. Hack's piece on crappy NFL qb play was also a good shot. I think the mag become overly involved in covering the personalities of the NFL when Silver was there and is doing a better job at providing an overall perspective of the league.

 

Good for her, bad for her, bad for The Times.
With the style and content of Ms Roberts columns, she has an interesting and unique position at The Times. She has a readership at The Times that, I think, appreciates her approach and angle on stories. I don't think that reader is generally at SI. She'll make more money, and that's important, very important. She won't be on SportsReporters anymore and her voice won't have the reverberations that bveing at The Times conveys.

 

So is Roberts getting the back column? And was there some story behind the story about SI's NFL coverage upheaval? Chadhia and Silver both gone. Did they get a new senior editor for the NFL?

 

No. She's going to be part of the rotation that they will be implementing for the backpage. The salary is mind-blowing.