Kevin Clark of The Ringer and a sports media roundtable with Kavitha Davidson of The Athletic and Chad Finn of The Boston Globe

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Episode 158 of the Sports Media Podcast features two segments. First up is Kevin Clark, an NFL writer, podcaster and video host for The Ringer. He previously covered the NFL for The Wall Street Journal. He is followed by a media roundtable with Kavitha Davidson, a sports and culture writer for The Athletic and the host of Culture Calculus podcast, and Chad Finn, the sports media writer and columnist for the Boston Globe. In this podcast Clark discusses the stories that interest him most at the start of the 2021 NFL season; how COVID has shaped his approach to stories; his travel experiences; the nexus of gambling and the NFL and what it means; how he views his competition; what the NFL public relations establishment thinks of The Ringer; why geography matters very little regarding where you live today; why he chose his most recent pieces and much more. Davidson and Finn discuss the biggest media-related stories of the NFL season; what the NFL setting strict limits on game-day access means; how sports gambling will look on NFL content this year; whether college sports broadcasters have any responsibility to discuss the COVID protocols and COVID stats during games; whether college football viewership will be up or down; John Smoltz and Al Leiter not appearing in-studio for MLBN 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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1:07.5	Hey everybody. This is Richard Deitch and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Two segments this week, three guests. First up, Kevin Clark, the NFL writer, podcaster, and video host for The Ringer. He does exceptional work. His features on the NFL are really good, very, very unique. You may remember Kevin, too, from covering the NFL for the Wall Street Journal.
1:29.9	But he's absolutely one of the best in the business.
1:32.6	And we talk about the stories that he's interested in this year,
1:36.4	and what kind of year he think it will be,
1:38.9	and just how he goes about doing the work that he does.
1:42.7	So if you're interested in Kevin's work, check that out.
1:45.5	I enjoyed that conversation.
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