T.J. Quinn leaving NY Daily News for ESPN

[casty33]

It looks like print is losing another as I was told yesterday that T.J. Quinn, who has been an investigative reporter for the NY Daily News, will be moving on to ESPN in that same position. Good luck to him.

 

[playthrough]

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/48735/

...that's one locked though, so have at it with the Quinn kudos here...

 

[chazp]

It looks like print is losing another as I was told yesterday that T.J. Quinn, who has been an investigative reporter for the NY Daily News, will be moving on to ESPN in that same position. Good luck to him.

I don't think he'll need luck with the big raise his bank account just got. Good for him.

 

[Bruhman]

Congrats to T.J., a great guy and great reporter.

 

[ballscribe]

Congrats to T.J., a great guy and great reporter.

Second and third that.

 

[Gold]

I wonder if he will be able to do the smae level of investigative work at ESPN?

Thoughts?

 

[Screwball]

The same level? No, he will -- as our friends in uniform say -- take it to the next level.

T.J.'s initiative, now backed by ESPN's resources: Want to fly somewhere just to check a tip that might not pan out? Sure, go for it.

T.J.'s a great guy, too. So is Mark Fainaru-Wada, en route to joining T.J. at ESPN

 

[Moderator1]

M F-W was not one I'd heard about until today so those other moves are still out there.
These folks are serious. I think I've said that before.

 

[DanOregon]

ESPN to Newspapers: DROP DEAD!

 

[Precious Roy]

How long until we are ALL working for the WWL as the internet's portion of the world's daily news feed?
I mean, all of us move over to the Yahoo!, AOL, ESPN and CBSsports while all the news sides go work for WaPo.com, CNN, Fox and all the rest.
When is that payday coming, or am I just delusional.

 

[Alma]

Of course they're serious. We'll see how serious they are in 10 years, when they've shelled out these massive salaries without the return they were hoping for because they lost the fee war to cable television, but that's then. This is now.

Newspapers/magazines really have nothing to fear so long as they're willing to adjust and develop talent. In other words, work hard. And take some chances on the things ESPN could care less about.

Like local stories.

That day is coming, I think. Sooner or later newspapers will understand that some jagoff at ESPN who floats into town for two days will attract more readers than the five people they're sending to some State U home college football game. It's about then that they'll either croak, or say "****, maybe we oughta cover stuff where ESPN isn't." Shiiiiit....maybe.

The media has engaged in a bias so ****ing extraordinary when it comes to sports that you wonder when it, as a collective, steps back and realizes that readers still want stories. Not mundane **** about the top team in the area that five other news outlets have, but specific stuff, that only you got, and they'll only read in your rag.

 

[DanOregon]

I agree that local news is important, but too often the emphasis is on LOCAL and not news. How many times do you read the same stories about the same events about the same people that don't impact anything? And do you really think newspapers are concerned about developing talent? I see stuff in newspapers every day on the front page that fail to answer the simple question: why should I care?

 

[Gold]

The same level? No, he will -- as our friends in uniform say -- take it to the next level.

T.J.'s initiative, now backed by ESPN's resources: Want to fly somewhere just to check a tip that might not pan out? Sure, go for it.

T.J.'s a great guy, too. So is Mark Fainaru-Wada, en route to joining T.J. at ESPN

In theory, they could do more and have more resources. But I really question whether something like that is possible at ESPN.

Is the commitment from top ESPN management there? I would think you would have more people you would have to deal with. I mean, consider ESPN's reputation. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but what major investigative pieces has ESPN initiated? I know there is Outside The Lines, but that is more of a talk show and checks out something which usually somebody in a newspaper and magazine started. What do they originate?

 

[creamora]

Fainaru-Wada and Quinn to ESPN

Mark Fainaru-Wada and TJ Quinn have been hired by ESPN.
Apparently, there continues to be huge interest by ESPN in reporting on the use of performance enhancing drugs at the elite level of sport. Both have and extensive body of work in this area. Is the BALCO story only at half-time? The world seems to have a massive appetite for sports drug scandals. This story has certainly been good for business.

 

[EE94]

The same level? No, he will -- as our friends in uniform say -- take it to the next level.

T.J.'s initiative, now backed by ESPN's resources: Want to fly somewhere just to check a tip that might not pan out? Sure, go for it.

T.J.'s a great guy, too. So is Mark Fainaru-Wada, en route to joining T.J. at ESPN

In theory, they could do more and have more resources. But I really question whether something like that is possible at ESPN.

Is the commitment from top ESPN management there? I would think you would have more people you would have to deal with. I mean, consider ESPN's reputation. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but what major investigative pieces has ESPN initiated? I know there is Outside The Lines, but that is more of a talk show and checks out something which usually somebody in a newspaper and magazine started. What do they originate?

I would suggest with the hiring of that pair, it looks like they are going to start.

 

[BYH]

Of course they're serious. We'll see how serious they are in 10 years, when they've shelled out these massive salaries without the return they were hoping for because they lost the fee war to cable television, but that's then. This is now.

Newspapers/magazines really have nothing to fear so long as they're willing to adjust and develop talent. In other words, work hard. And take some chances on the things ESPN could care less about.

So in other words, they're ****ed.

Congrats to TJ, who kicked all sorts of ass on the Mets beat in the late '90s and earlier this decade. I wonder if his critic on this board still thinks he's only done "one" story on the steroid saga.

 

[BYH]

Re: Fainaru-Wada and Quinn to ESPN

Yeah but was it posted from a phone, Bucky? WAS IT POSTED FROM A PHONE??

And that Fainaru-Wada...he's the one whose work on Game of Shadows you mocked, right, Creamora? I guess someone thinks he's doing something right. We are fortunate that you do whatever it is that you do instead of hiring for The Worldwide Leader.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

Re: Fainaru-Wada and Quinn to ESPN

The world seems to have a massive appetite for sports drug scandals.

I think most sports fans don't care. That's not to disparage the work of the reporters. That's not to say ESPN or anybody else shouldn't want to be No. 1 in covering it. But I don't think there's a "massive appetite." Most people would rather watch the game.

 

[sportschick]

Re: Fainaru-Wada and Quinn to ESPN

Yeah but was it posted from a phone, Bucky? WAS IT POSTED FROM A PHONE??

And that Fainaru-Wada...he's the one whose work on Game of Shadows you mocked, right, Creamora? I guess someone thinks he's doing something right. We are fortunate that you keep creating new, untestable forms of steroids do whatever it is that you do instead of hiring for The Worldwide Leader.

 

[imjustagirl2]

Re: Fainaru-Wada and Quinn to ESPN

Yay, sportschick!!!