Fox’s World Cup coverage and coverage of Brittney Griner’s release: A sports media roundtable with Kavitha A. Davidson and Ben Strauss
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
Audacy
4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Episode 261 of the Sports Media Podcast features a media roundtable with Kavitha A. Davidson, a sportswriter and a correspondent for Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel and Ben Strauss, who covers sports and media for The Washington Post
In this podcast, Davidson and Strauss discuss the U.S. and Russia prisoner exchange involving WNBA star Brittney Griner and how that coverage will likely play out on sports outlets; Fox’s World Cup coverage; Arson Judge and the race to be first among transaction reporters; the coverage of Deshaun Watson from NFL partners; Ben's piece on the power and peril of being Adam Schefter, the ultimate NFL insider; and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more.
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| 1:07.9 | Hey everybody. |
| 1:08.7 | This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 1:10.7 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Sports Media Roundtable this week wanted to get this in. We have Kavitha Davidson, a sports writer and correspondent for real sports with Brian Gumbull, and Ben Shreuss, who covers sports and media for the Washington Post. In this podcast, we discuss how the Brittany Griner story, how we expected to be played within the sports world. |
| 1:34.5 | It broke literally an hour prior to this podcast being taped, Brittany Griner, coming home in a prisoner exchange. |
| 1:47.0 | We also get into Fox's World Cup coverage, do a lot of that, the arson judge and the race to be first among transaction reporters. |
| 1:58.2 | Coverage of Deshawn Watson from NFL partners. |
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