Covering the Buckeyes, Part 1: Beat wars, message board culture and an inside look at Ohio State reporting

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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Sports, Football

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Part 1 of a two-part Buckeye Talk examining life inside the Ohio State beat. On this first episode (the second ep is immediately after this in your podcast feed) Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means start off by talking about what happened at Buckeye Scoop, a site that coverages Ohio State that recently saw one co-founder of the site, Marc Givler, sue the two other co-founders, Kirk Barton and Ken Stickney. From there, Doug, Nathan and Stephen branched off to talk about message boards, reporting and how they cover the Buckeyes. (0:00 to 49:49). Then several guests from other Ohio State sites visited to discuss their views on the subject and how they cover the team: Bill Landis and Ari Wasserman, former Buckeye Talk co-hosts now working at The Athletic (49:50 to 1:17:35) Ben Koo, an OSU alum and fan who founded the sports media site Awful Announcing and has knowledge of the Buckeyes and a big-picture media view (1:17:36 to 1:39:05) Bill Rabinowitz and Joey Kaufman of the Columbus Dispatch (1:39:06 to 2:03:54) And then there's a quick wrapup by Doug. In a week when the Buckeyes are seven-touchdown favorites over Akron, this is something a little different from cleveland.com. We hope you enjoy it, and don't forget to listen to Part 2 after this. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Music
0:56.0	Welcome back to your Thursday book.
0:58.0	This is going to be a different one.
1:00.0	Douglas Murray, Steven Means, Nathan Baird, and a cast of others will be joining us over the course of this podcast, which is about covering the Ohio State football team.
1:12.0	I have interviews with outlets, five other outlets that cover Ohio State.
1:16.0	We will talk about sort of all these outlets.
1:18.0	And I, in fact, and we're going to break this podcast into two pieces because it's going to be, I think, close to four hours total.
1:25.0	It's evergreen.
1:27.0	You don't have to listen to all four hours right now.
1:30.0	It's how you cover the beat.
1:31.0	It's a lot of general stuff that you can listen to this podcast in a year.
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