Who's staffing the Super Bowl?

Charlotte is evidently not in Indy yet. It is a McClatchey paper, like KC, and not that much farther from Indy than KC. Bet the Star does not go.

 

I picked up Tuesday's USA Today. I quickly counted at least five bylines with datelines. And really, why would a national newspaper like USA Today not send all of its devoted NFL reporters? You can book these things well in advance.

 

Because it contradicts every content sharing message Gannett has shoved down its papers' throats the past 3 years. It's not about booking flights early. It's about sending the wrong message, specifically: The rules don't apply to us.

 

USA Today's competition sports-wise is the AP stuff published in the sections of the local papers where USA Today is actually a viable reading option for consumers or even a step up from the local rag. It's other audience is business travelers. It HAS to staff the Super Bowl, Olympics, etc. Otherwise, its sports section becomes pointless during a week in which sports readership in general expands -- in theory.

 

Olympics makes sense because so few papers travel. I raised this point simply because the Super Bowl is in a major metro Gannett town. It's G's money, G's choice. Indy has, what, probably 12 reporters doing nothing but Super Bowl; Cincy has NFL writers, plus Doc. Louisville has Bozich. There's plenty of content coming from Gannett papers.

 

The other writers from Gannett papers who are there will have to help USA Today out as well.

 

Hartford Courant has a columnist.....and a web producer from the FOX side of things. Yuck.

 

I believe his fiance lives in Indy.

 

Been there, done that.

(Not the Super Bowl, but other events in the Early USAT days.

 

Vito's there for Jacksonville.