How to Be a Newspaper Sports Columnist With the L.A. Times’ Bill Plaschke
The Press Box
The Ringer
4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 1:17.8 | Hello Media Consumers, welcome to Pressbox Friday, Brian Curtis of The Ringer here, along with |
| 1:25.7 | producer Erica Servantes. Today we've got another one of our How To podcast. You know the drill, |
| 1:33.0 | we bring on an interesting media person to tell us how they do their job. And today we're going |
| 1:37.6 | to learn how to be a newspaper sports columnist with Bill Plaschky of the LA Times. Bill Plaschky |
| 1:44.7 | has been writing a column for the Times since 1996. So 25 years. And one of the cool parts for me |
| 1:51.1 | about living in LA is to wake up, open the paper, and in a wonderfully analog way, see what Bill Plaschky |
| 1:58.5 | has to say about sports. Now the job of the newspaper sports columnist was wasn't the job in sports |
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