J.A. Adande, the Director of Sports Journalism and the Medill School at Northwestern University and The Athletic's NASCAR writer Jeff Gluck.

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Episode 103 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests. First up is J.A. Adande, the Director of Sports Journalism and the Medill School at Northwestern University and a longtime ESPN staffer. He is followed by The Athletic NASCAR writer Jeff Gluck. In this podcast, Adande discusses how he has processed the last two weeks in America; the nexus of sports and social justice and sports and race and why you must cover these issues even knowing that some consumers of your product are not going to be happy if you do; what his students at Northwestern are saying about sports journalism; his optimism for sports journalism given this moment in America; the growing power of college athletes; the discussion among NBA players regarding the league’s return-to-play plan; and much more. Gluck, who has been traveling on the NASCAR beat since 2007, discusses NASCAR’s decision to prohibit the display of the Confederate flag from all NASCAR events and properties; how he anticipates this will be covered heading forward; the role of the networks that air NASCAR in the decision; whether this will have an impact on viewership or attendance 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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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producers are Patrick Antenetti and Sean Cherry. This week, two guests, two terrific guests, two really, two conversations I really enjoyed. First up is Jay Adande.
0:22.4	He is the director of sports journalism at the Medell School at Northwestern University.
0:28.2	I think a lot of people who listen to this podcast will certainly know him from his
0:31.6	longtime work at ESPN, both as a writer as well as an on-air commentator for around
0:36.8	the horn, part of the interruption, NBA coverage.
0:39.6	Jay also used to write for Los Angeles Times, one of the great NBA columnists and general columnists of his era.
0:48.3	So he's first, and he's followed by Jeff Gluck, who works with me at The Athletic.
0:54.1	Jeff Gluck is one of with me at The Athletic.
0:58.2	Jeff Gluck is one of the premium voices on NASCAR. And in this conversation, J.A. and I talk about the last couple of weeks in America
1:05.2	and the nexus of sports and politics and sports and social justice and sports and race and the coverage of that.
1:12.4	And then we get into Jay's work at Northwestern and just what are young people who want to go
1:16.6	into this profession right now?
1:17.8	What are they thinking?
1:18.7	Are they optimistic?
1:20.1	They're certainly passionate, but, you know, they see all the stuff surrounding them,
1:24.4	including layoffs this week at my place, The Athletic, and what are they thinking?
1:29.9	Do they feel like they can have careers in this business?
1:32.7	And then Jeff Gluck and I discussed the NASCAR's decision to prohibit the display of the
1:40.2	Confederate flag from all NASCAR events and properties, what that means, how that will be
1:44.7	covered and everything that went into that decision in the aftermath. So two really good guests,
1:51.0	two very prominent people in my business. Jay A. Adande and Jeff Gluck coming up on the
1:56.5	sports media podcast.
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