Jayson Stark, Ken Rosenthal & Tim Layden

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Episode 2 of the Sports Media podcast with Richard Deitsch features two segments. First, a conversation with Ken Rosenthal, a senior baseball writer for The Athletic, a reporter for Fox Sports' MLB telecasts and analyst for the MLB Network, and Jayson Stark, a senior baseball writer at the Athletic and studio at MLB Network. The second segment features Sports Illustrated senior Tim Layden on the life and work of William Nack. In this podcast, Rosenthal and Stark discusses how to morph between digital/print and television; the most interesting people to speak with in major league baseball; how to cultivate sources on the baseball beat; how Stark uses numbers and analytics as part of his work; why each joined The Athletic; how shocked Stark was upon learning he had lost his ESPN job; how Rosenthal dealt with learning that Fox Sports’s website was no longer using original writing content; what baseball writing might look like in 30 years; what teams are the most interesting to cover right now; why Shohei Ohtani remains an underappreciated story, and much more. Layden discusses the historical impact of Nack’s work; his best SI pieces; what made Nack great as a writer; whether it was intimidating to follow Nack on the horse racing beat; why Nack was underappreciated at Sports Illustrated; Nack’s love of Secretariat; Layden’s thoughts on Sports Illustrated’s future, the Ringer’s recent piece on SI, 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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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast with Richard Deich. My producer, as always, is Lou Pellegrino. Two really good conversations this week. I think you're going to enjoy this. First up, Ken Rosenthal, the senior baseball writer for the athletic, as well as an in-studio reporter for MLB Network Network a contributed to Fox's MLB Telecasts and Jason Stark, senior baseball writer for the athletic and a MLB Network studio analysts.
0:26.0	We are going to discuss the process of baseball reporting, baseball writing.
0:29.9	We'll also get into Jason Stark being laid off by ESPN and Ken Rosenthal having to find a place to write when Fox Sports decided to go all video on their website.
0:41.4	That was a really terrific conversation. I think you can enjoy it. We finish up with Tim Layden,
0:45.1	senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He wrote the memoir for Sports Illustrated on Bill Nack,
0:50.4	and we have a 30-minute conversation or so about what made Nat great, some of Bill Nack's
0:55.4	greatest stories.
0:57.0	And Tim Layden on The Future of Sports Illustrated.
1:00.6	All right.
1:01.0	And as promises at the top, we bring on Ken Rosenthal and Jason Stark.
1:06.0	Very excited to have the two pillars of the athletic with me on the sports media podcast.
1:12.5	Jason and Ken, welcome.
1:15.6	Thank you, Richard.
1:16.3	Always wanted to be a pillar.
1:17.6	Pretty excited about that.
1:19.0	Took you a long time, Jason, but you finally have made it.
1:22.1	And I appreciate, as I said, slumming on this podcast.
1:24.9	You guys are very nice to do that.
1:27.3	All right, first off, what's really interesting about your careers, andumming on this podcast. You guys are very nice to do that. All right, first off,
1:28.5	what's really interesting about your careers, there are many things interesting, but one of the
1:33.0	things for the purposes of this podcast, and I think there's a lot of young people who listen,
1:37.6	and there's a lot of young people who eventually want to be in, have a multimedia career.
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