First Look: Where are sports fans going today for social media?
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Here’s a short clip from our upcoming interview with Julia Alexander, the media correspondent for Puck and one of the foremost experts on media in the U.S. The full interview will be available on Thursday. In this clip, Alexander discusses how social media has splintered for sports discussion and how the idea of one social media site being the centralized place for sports is akin to Walter Cronkite returning as the solo voice of news. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Media Podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm your host, Richard Deich. |
| 0:10.3 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:12.6 | Our guest for this episode is Julie Alexander, a media correspondent for Puck, and really |
| 0:19.6 | one of the best people, in my opinion in the country when |
| 0:22.7 | it comes to the ships in media and in tech and where things are going. |
| 0:28.1 | This is a first look of my interview with Julia. |
| 0:31.7 | The full interview will be out on Thursday, October 16th. |
| 0:36.7 | It really is excellent. |
| 0:37.7 | We went about 55 minutes or so on a number of topics. |
| 0:41.6 | But I wanted to do a first look because there was so much good stuff that came from this interview. |
| 0:48.9 | Okay, so we're going to release this clip from that interview. |
| 0:53.6 | And I asked Julia about the nexus of social media |
| 0:58.6 | and sports and where things are going here. Because once upon a time, the center of that |
| 1:05.3 | universe was Twitter. And in some ways, it's still the center. But we are in a much, much different environment when so many people, when it comes to sort of sports postings are scattered across like the social media environment. |
| 1:23.2 | So here is Julia Alexander of puck on where things are heading with the nexus of sports and sports media. |
| 1:35.9 | Twitter, to me, still even in 2025, does feel like the center of sports conversation, though a certainly diminished product |
| 1:44.9 | when it comes to that. The site kind of algorithmically is garbage. I'm not going to sort of get |
| 1:51.5 | into what is on the site, although I think there's a lot of garbage on the site. But the reality |
| 1:55.9 | is it's just, it's not as, it's not what it used to be where I felt like such a communal experience watching sports together in like 2013, 2014, 2012, where it really felt like, at least for me, maybe this is just a my age thing. |
| 2:12.6 | It felt like the center of the sports universe and that you had to be there to sort of offer a take or something |
| 2:17.6 | funny or whatever. Today, it feels much more splintered where you have different groups |
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