Philly Ink has new sports editor

I don't think you can assume he was a "cheap hire." The Inquirer had a very experienced editor as the interim SE. But they still hired someone to replace Jenks. Often these days, the job simply disappears.

 

And that is a fair comment. They did fill this position. But they've cut the sports department to the bone there, and they really did need to fill this.

 

To address a comment above: Yes, most Web sites can definitely track the number of users who have looked at a particular blog. Those numbers can be really enlightening (and reinforce the huge interest in the NFL).

 

From some who know him, Cohen might be cheap, but he doesn't come cheap.

That said, I believe he was in between jobs or at least underemployed after ESPN squeezed him out. Still waiting for that bold newspaper to hire away one of ESPN's prime guys by waving the big bucks and, even less likely, big journalism opportunities in front of his nose. And no, I don't count Dan Patrick to SI, since SI can prop him up with plenty of reporting help and ghostwriting.

Also, it's hard to know with inside jobs, due to title-itis, whether the "deputy executive producer" of some WWL show is a promotion, lateral move or step down for someone who might accept an "AME/Sports" role at a metro.

 

I assume they've been able to do that for years with old-fashioned stories and columns posted on Web sites, too, right? Count the "hits" or whatever? It would be interesting to see if popularity is dictated by the sport written about, the team in question in a certain market, or the writer involved. Does Lupica get more hits than his paper's Yankees beat coverage, for instance? Which of the Boston Globe's columnist brings up the rear in Web visitors?

Wonder how we'd find this stuff out.

 

I want a spnited weekly fantasy football update

 

We have someone who does those.. in print on Friday and more detailed on his blog.

 

That's all well and good...but I want YOU to do it, knowing your hatred for all things fantasy sports. It would make for good video

 

Yeah, I'd hate to hear about a writer whose workload gets scaled back to something closer to reasonable, since he wasn't getting paid for his added blog work anyway.