The great Bleacher Report site to be bought for 200 million!!!

That's the max value of B/R right there. If your a high school graduate entering college and want to get some steppingstone pub then B/R is a good place to START but once you have a good start move onto something better.

Exactly, for anyone who thinks B/R are average or above (meaning they could handle a beat, of any kind let alone a major beat) read through some of the bio's, not to mention the work put out. It's a clear message why they're there. It's because that's as good as they're gonna get

 

No. A stepping stone is at a small shop, maybe even a weekly. B/R is something people write on before they wrap up the night by beating off to Internet porn (not that there's anything wrong with that). Most any idiot can spout off an opinion on a website. I'm doing it right now. But it's an entirely different deal when you have to sit through a game, keep stats, take pictures, get quotes and turn something around on a tight deadline.

 

When we had a sportswriter opening a couple of years ago we got quite a few applicants who sent it clips from B/R... all were awful, a few could barely string together a few sentences (with correct punctuation, typos, proper grammar) for a cover letter. Their top 10 lists were written even worse. It was quite sad to see some of these kids managed to get journalism degrees.

 

Speaking of B/R, I wonder what Andy and Lars are up to?

 

Not hard to believe. Many folks want to be sportswriters, but you have to have the knack for it (and know proper English). I understand expendable's point, but if a kid can really write and can show that through his/her work on B/R, it's as good a steppingstone as any small paper.

 

No, it isn't a stepping stone, unless anyone knows of someone who has landed a newspaper job based on B/R. People need to stop giving others false hope.

 

I think it's up to the ambition of the writer and what they do with their opportunity at B/R. Certainly if they are writing top 10 hottest skiers then it's probably not a good clip. But it isn't ALL garbage on there.

 

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A B/R contributor won't develop reporting skills but can use it as a platform to develop their writing, and learn how to interact with readers in these messy commenting streams that like it or not (I don't) seems to be expected in Post Newspaper Era journalism. The downside is that B/R is dirty and damages a writer from a branding standpoint. When I see a B/R on a credential in a press box I assume the the person attached is a doofus.

 

Well Andy got kicked from another online site and I'm currently working with a Washington Huskies recruiting site.

 

OMG I love recruiting sitez

 

I don't know if this is relevant but the "Lead Writer" for Alabama Football (who also writes for a UA Mag) had a season credential at 'Bama. Maybe he knew the SID or something or maybe that magazine always got credentials. Nonetheless, he was given a press box seat all season.