Star Tribune's Kevin Seifert off to ESPN.com

[Small Town Guy]

He was the beat guy for the Vikings, and always did a good job.

http://www.minnpost.com/davidbrauer/2008/05/14/1857/strib_loses_top_vikings_reporter_to_espn

And in even worse news for the Strib, the paper has to cut $20 million.

http://msp.blogs.com/brianlambert/2008/05/the-strib-and-k.html

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Congrats to Kevin. This was rumored a year ago, but for whatever reason nothing happened.

ESPN is spending a ****load of money hiring some of the best NFL beat writers. I think they have one for every division now.

Sando, Williamson, Yasinkas (sp?), Seifert... I know I'm forgetting a few...

 

[Mizzougrad96]

We already know who will be replacing Kevin...

NOBODY

 

[sportsed]

Congrats to Kevin. This was rumored a year ago, but for whatever reason nothing happened.

ESPN is spending a ****load of money hiring some of the best NFL beat writers. I think they have one for every division now.

Sando, Williamson, Yasinkas (sp?), Seifert... I know I'm forgetting a few...

Mosley is another. Word on the street is that there will be eight bloggers in all. Plus Clayton, plus Pasquarelli, plus Garber ...

 

[slappy4428]

Damn... Strib's getting hit hard... ****in investment bankers...

 

[derwood]

Congrats to Kevin. This was rumored a year ago, but for whatever reason nothing happened.

ESPN is spending a ****load of money hiring some of the best NFL beat writers. I think they have one for every division now.

Sando, Williamson, Yasinkas (sp?), Seifert... I know I'm forgetting a few...

Mosley is another. Word on the street is that there will be eight bloggers in all. Plus Clayton, plus Pasquarelli, plus Garber ...

One per division?

 

[Sam Mills 51]

One writer for each division in the league - eight in all. Probably with guys like John Clayton, Len Pasquarelli and such doing stories throughout the league.

Pat Yasinskas (there you go, Mizzou) is doing stories on the NFC South. Fitting, given his years in Charlotte covering the Panthers.

 

[Joe Williams]

Impeccable timing on Seifert's part. Star Tribune, your tar pit is ready.

 

[The Commish]

Star Tribune, your tar pit is ready.

My wife, child and mortgage thank you.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Kevin's a good guy and well deserving of the opportunity to flee to the WWL. I'm all for anybody who can survive several years in a highly competitive situation and emerge with sanity and journalistic legitimacy intact.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

According to The Big Lead, writers to cover six of the eight divisions have been hired, with ones from the AFC South and AFC East still to come...

 

[Barsuk]

According to The Big Lead, writers to cover six of the eight divisions have been hired, with ones from the AFC South and AFC East still to come...

Safe to assume the Boston Herald's guy won't get the AFC East gig?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

According to The Big Lead, writers to cover six of the eight divisions have been hired, with ones from the AFC South and AFC East still to come...

Safe to assume the Boston Herald's guy won't get the AFC East gig?

Probably a safe bet...

 

[Joe Williams]

Star Tribune, your tar pit is ready.

My wife, child and mortgage thank you.

They'll thank you more when you've transitioned to a more secure and more lucrative career.

No offense intended, but every day you don't get out, it gets worse. And harder. Do you really trust the folks who own and run that place in particular, in bad biz overall, with your wife's, your child's and your mortgage's (?) future? Not everyone has Seifert's good fortune but everyone can take control of their working lives.

From what I hear, the private-equity approach is even worse than the publicly held ownership model, because at least shareholders are relatively slow and lethargic in demanding their profits. Private-equity guys will cut and slash you like Russian mobsters to pocket an extra five bucks.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Star Tribune, your tar pit is ready.

My wife, child and mortgage thank you.

They'll thank you more when you've transitioned to a more secure and more lucrative career.

No offense intended, but every day you don't get out, it gets worse. And harder. Do you really trust the folks who own and run that place in particular, in bad biz overall, with your wife's, your child's and your mortgage's (?) future? Not everyone has Seifert's good fortune but everyone can take control of their working lives.

From what I hear, the private-equity approach is even worse than the publicly held ownership model, because at least shareholders are relatively slow and lethargic in demanding their profits. Private-equity guys will cut and slash you like Russian mobsters to pocket an extra five bucks.

Another example of how the top one percent of our industry are in great shape and the rest of us are seriously ****ed...

 

[Joe Williams]

Star Tribune, your tar pit is ready.

My wife, child and mortgage thank you.

They'll thank you more when you've transitioned to a more secure and more lucrative career.

No offense intended, but every day you don't get out, it gets worse. And harder. Do you really trust the folks who own and run that place in particular, in bad biz overall, with your wife's, your child's and your mortgage's (?) future? Not everyone has Seifert's good fortune but everyone can take control of their working lives.

From what I hear, the private-equity approach is even worse than the publicly held ownership model, because at least shareholders are relatively slow and lethargic in demanding their profits. Private-equity guys will cut and slash you like Russian mobsters to pocket an extra five bucks.

Another example of how the top one percent of our industry are in great shape and the rest of us are seriously ****ed...

Ain't it the truth, Mizzou.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I talked to one of my former bosses a few days ago and he said, "There are two kinds of people left in the business, the ones who are totally ****ed and the ones who are too delusional to know that they're totally ****ed..."

 

[Joe Williams]

Into which group would you put the poor saps who are just trying to make it to early retirement -- product, impact or job satisfaction be damned?

Both?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

It will not surprise me at all if in the next 2-3 years we just start seeing papers folding all over the place.

When is it going to get better?

It's not.

 

[Joe Williams]

Question for oldsters more veteran journos: Are pensions safe when a company goes under? I don't mean all the extra bennies, like health-care bridges to Medicare and stuff. I just mean the cold, hard cash that has been promised and projected.