Olympics coverage

[MileHigh]

Wondering what folks are doing in this day and age of slashing expenses and employees.

Did your paper send anyone to Vancouver, and if so, how many? If you did not, has your paper staffed the Games (Winter or Summer) in the past? If you want to include a circulation range without outing yourself, feel free. And what is your daily coverage going to entail and how much less is that than in the past?

I read an APSE story about coverage plans for some Northwest papers (Spokane isn't going), and found it interesting that Scripps Howard News Service did not put together a team to send to Canada.

http://apsportseditors.org/newsletter/northwest-region-report-area-papers-covering-the-olympics-hard/

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Someone told me one of the Tribune Co. papers wasn't sending anybody. I find that very difficult to believe. One of my old shops, which would have typically had 8 to 10 at something this close, sent two.

 

[MileHigh]

I suspect the L.A. Times will supply Tribune papers with copy. I know Lisa Dillman and Bill Plaschke are there. For starters. The Times has always gone gung-ho on the Olympics.

 

[HanSenSE]

Looks like Hearst is doing shared coverage too. I know David Barron is there from Houston and John Crumpacker from San Francisco.

Us? We're too small to send anyone, and I know I've been saying we'll downplay it because there's not a lot of snow, hills or ice surfaces here, plus basketball playoffs start in a couple of weeks, but here I am, centering with it again ...

 

[Pilot]

We sent two of our three sports guys. We're not a fair comparison, though.

 

[Sxysprtswrtr]

Sent one of our guys.

 

[Billy Pritchard]

I suspect the L.A. Times will supply Tribune papers with copy. I know Lisa Dillman and Bill Plaschke are there. For starters. The Times has always gone gung-ho on the Olympics.

Phil Hersh and Brian Hamilton are there from Chicago.

 

[Football_Bat]

JJT and Kate from the DMN are putting Vancouver datelines on their stories.

 

[I Should Coco]

I suspect the L.A. Times will supply Tribune papers with copy. I know Lisa Dillman and Bill Plaschke are there. For starters. The Times has always gone gung-ho on the Olympics.

Phil Hersh and Brian Hamilton are there from Chicago.

I would hope so. Phil's a great reporter who has covered Olympic sports well for quite some time.

 

[Den1983]

Us? We're too small to send anyone, and I know I've been saying we'll downplay it because there's not a lot of snow, hills or ice surfaces here, plus basketball playoffs start in a couple of weeks ....

We're small, too, and we've been downplaying it. Part of the "hyperlocal" scheme, although local sports is hectic this time of year, and there's generally not a HUGE interest here in the Winter Olympics.

 

[MileHigh]

Denver Post has at least three reporters and a photographer there.

 

[Billy Pritchard]

I suspect the L.A. Times will supply Tribune papers with copy. I know Lisa Dillman and Bill Plaschke are there. For starters. The Times has always gone gung-ho on the Olympics.

Phil Hersh and Brian Hamilton are there from Chicago.

I would hope so. Phil's a great reporter who has covered Olympic sports well for quite some time.

I didn't realize it until today, but Chicago also sent Blackhawks writer Chris Kuc.

 

[lone star scribe]

The one person who would be available to send now is your NHL writer. Makes perfect sense. Although we didn't. West Coast deadlines are a hassle.

 

[MileHigh]

Really? Seems everything is geared to end at 11, 11:30 or 12 Eastern for NBC's prime-time coverage.

 

[gingerbread]

We have five in Vancouver, including a video crew. I'm pretty sure that's the most amongst web sites, not including ESPN.

 

[Woolly Mammoth]

Someone told me one of the Tribune Co. papers wasn't sending anybody. I find that very difficult to believe. One of my old shops, which would have typically had 8 to 10 at something this close, sent two.

True.