Chelsea Janes & Bruce Feldman

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2018

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Episode 33 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests: Chelsea Janes, the Washington Nationals beat reporter for the Washington Post who will move from that beat after the new year to cover the 2020 Presidential election; and Bruce Feldman, a college football reporter for The Athletic and a football sideline reporter for Fox Sports. In this podcast, Janes discusses her upcoming move from covering MLB to the 2020 Presidential campaign; how her new assignment came to be; the challenges of covering politics and getting new sources; how she has approached social media and political opinions; how baseball is a good training ground for the political road; whether she thinks she will return to sports; covering the Nationals and specifically the specter of Bryce Harper leaving the franchise; what she thought of the Patrick Corbin signing and what she thinks of the Nationals in 2019; the prospect of covering the next President of the United States; and much more. Feldman discusses college football podcasts and why there are not as many as other sports; the roles of college football media people in 2019; how important it is for him to be a newsbreaker; his leaving ESPN and whether he still has hard feelings from that episode; how he navigates his broadcast work with reporting for The Athletic; the value of being on TV for reporting; the deification of college coaches on college broadcasts; whether game coverage is the appropriate place for issue-oriented discussions, and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:05.3	My producer is always is Lou Pellegrino.
0:07.3	Two guests this week.
0:08.5	I really enjoyed these conversations, both really, really interesting people.
0:12.6	First up is Chelsea Jains.
0:14.4	She has been the Nationals beat reporter for the Washington Post since 2014.
0:19.3	But starting at the beginning of the new year in 2019,
0:22.2	she is moving to the national politics beat at the post. And we'll be covering the 2020
0:28.2	presidential campaign and will most likely be attached or assigned to a candidate. And we
0:33.9	discuss that move. One of the more interesting moves for a sports media person.
0:38.9	So this podcast starts with Chelsea Jains.
0:41.6	And then we finish up with Bruce Feldman.
0:43.8	He is a writer, reporter, columnist for The Athletic.
0:48.5	Works with me there.
0:49.7	Also a sideline reporter for Fox Sports and absolutely one of the foremost college football voices
0:56.9	writers in the country. And we have a long discussion about many topics rather than sort of give
1:04.0	them here. Just listen in. I think you're really going to enjoy that. Bruce, of course,
1:08.1	is the co-host with Stu Mandela of the Audible. So a lot of podcasting
1:11.6	experience there. And we talk about his podcast as well. But it's always great to catch up with Bruce
1:16.1	and really smart guy. And I enjoyed that. So Chelsea Janes of the Washington Post to start.
1:21.5	And then Bruce Feldman of the Athletic and Fox Sports coming up on the sports media podcast.
1:27.7	All right. And as promised at the top, we bring in Chelsea Jane.
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