Four reporters discuss camping out overnight to get a major sports story
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Episode 605 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Front Office Sports women's basketball writer Annie Constable; Doug Feinberg, the lead women's basketball writer for the AP; Jackie Powell, who works at The IX Sports covering the New York Liberty and the WNBA and hosts the IX Sports Podcast and Alexa Philippou, a women's basketball writer for ESPN. These four reporters were instrumental in providing first-hand reporting on the WNBA and WNBA Players Association agreement on the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement. In this podcast, the group discusses the reporting experience; what it was like to interview subjects at 3:30 a.m. ET; how to learn about sports labor agreements on the fly; evaluating the deal from both the players' and management sides; how frantic WNBA free agency will be in the next couple of weeks; the upcoming WNBA Draft; the salary cap jumping to $7 million (up from $1.5 million in 2025); the current owners of the WNBA; whether they would take Sarah Strong over Paige Bueckers if they were building a team and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.
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| 0:33.5 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm your host, Richard Dij. |
| 0:40.0 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:42.3 | I can't believe I'm about to say this, but four guests on this podcast. |
| 0:46.3 | This may be, we have done 600 podcasts. |
| 0:48.9 | This may be a record for the most guests on one podcast, but we had to have the Langham Four on this one. |
| 0:57.1 | Doug Feinberg is the Associated Press's lead women's basketball writer. |
| 1:01.6 | Alexa Philip who covers women's basketball for ESPN. |
| 1:04.8 | Their lead writer there as well. |
| 1:05.9 | Annie Constable covers that sport for front office sports. |
| 1:09.5 | She has been on this podcast before. |
| 1:11.4 | Jackie Powell is a freelance reporter and writer who covers women's basketball and the culture of that sport. |
| 1:17.8 | Find her at the nine sports. |
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