Jane McManus and Katie Strang

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Episode 70 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests: Jane McManus is the director of the Center for Sports Communication at Marist College, a sports columnist for the New York Daily News and a former ESPN and espnW columnist. Katie Strang is a national writer for The Athletic based in Michigan. and a former NHL and MLB writer for ESPN. In this podcast, McManus and Strang discuss covering stories that focus on mental health and sexual assault in sports; how to cover such stories thoughtfully, intelligentially and accurately; how such stories are looked at internally by sports media outlets; the language used by the media when it comes to sexual assault and mental health; how the public reacts to such stories; how to educate yourself on the topic if you work in the sports media; whether broadcast networks such as ESPN should have mental health experts on staff to talk on air; Strang on the emotional toll of covering the Larry Nassar trial; the challenges of reporting and writing on this topic and much 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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0:28.7	ladies and gentlemen gentlemen everybody this is richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:38.2	My producer, as always, is Patrick Antenetti.
0:41.6	Interesting episode this week.
0:44.8	Two great guests, two longtime colleagues and friends,
0:50.4	and I think you will enjoy this conversation.
0:53.1	Jay McManus is a columnist for the Daily News, a New York Daily News.
0:57.7	She's the director of the Center for Sports Communication at Maris College.
1:02.4	She's a former ESPN and ESPNW columnist.
1:05.7	She said bylines in many, many places, including the New York Times.
1:08.9	We work together at the Columbia University School of Journalism,
1:12.5	where we taught a class together for a number of years.
1:16.2	Katie Strang is a national writer for The Athletic,
1:20.7	and one of the best people, if not the best person I work with at that place.
1:32.7	She is a former NHL and MLB writer for ESPN.
1:39.1	And if you're a fan of sports writing or sports journalism, these are pretty much names that you already know. And we head immediately to our conversation. Jay McManus, Katie Strang, welcome to the sports media podcast.
1:49.1	Hey, Richard. All right, Jane, I'm going to start with you. And the topic of this podcast is sort of how mental health is discussed and written about on sports television and in sports journalism.
2:07.3	And a couple weeks ago, this is not really new observation.
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