Covering the NFL: A conversation with Jenny Vrentas of New York Times and Lindsay Jones of The Ringer

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Episode 239 of the Sports Media podcast features a conversation with Lindsay Jones, a senior editor for The Ringer where she helps lead their NFL coverage and and Jenny Vrentas, a sports reporter for The New York Times with a focus on enterprise and investigations. In this podcast, Jones and Vrentas discuss their respective roles; the challenges of reporting and writing challenging NFL stories; moving from The Athletic to the Ringer for Jones; whether NFL reporters will get increased access; Vrentas’s reporting on Deshaun Watson and how she worked on the story; being cynical about how NFL teams investigate and vet prospects; the climate of investigative reporting for NFL stories; the cognitive dissonance of doing NFL content; why we think the Bills are rightful; Super Bowl favorites; expectations for Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers this season; Russell Wilson’s move to Denver; the fate of the New York-based NFL teams; why covering the Chargers, Bills, Chiefs and Browns would be interesting, and 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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1:07.4	Hey everybody. This is Richard Dyche and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Two guests this week on the same podcast. Both are top shelf. They are exceptional at what they do. Jenny Rentis is a sports reporter from the New York Times. She focuses on enterprise and investigations. You have read her work at that publication as well as Sports Illustrated and the MMQB.
1:30.5	She's one of the best investigative sports reporters out there.
1:35.0	And I imagine you have read her work on Deshawn Watson.
1:39.2	Lindsay Jones is a senior editor for The Ringer, where she helps lead their NFL coverage.
1:45.2	Prior to that, we worked together at the at the athletic where she was a national NFL writer great hire by the ringer
1:50.7	there lindsay jones's resume includes covering the NFL USA today and the Denver brocos for the
1:56.7	Denver post um we start with what their current jobs are and how they do it. Get into the challenge
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