Luke Smith and Madeline Coleman of The Athletic on covering Formula One

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Episode 282 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation on covering F1 with Luke Smith, a senior writer for The Athletic, and Madeline Coleman, a staff writer for The Athletic. In this podcast, Smith and Coleman discuss how one goes about covering Formula One given the sheer amount of teams and people in the sport; what kind of access they receive as media; F1 soaring in popularity, especially in North America; why the increased interest in the U.S.; the impact of Liberty Media as well as the sport embracing social media; the addition of new U.S.-based races; the importance of a challenger in 2023 for Max Verstappen; the challenges of getting time with the top drivers; Logan Sargeant and the importance of an American driver emerging, 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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1:07.3	Hey, everybody.
1:08.1	This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast.
1:10.3	My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Two guests this week, but one topic. The topic is covering Formula One, covering F1. My guests are Luke Smith, a senior writer for The Athletic, and Madeline Coleman, a staff writer for The Athletic the athletic and obviously I work there as well.
1:29.9	The athletic has started a new vertical on F1 and has invested significant resources in dollars,
1:36.6	including both Luke and Madeline as well as some other writers and editors.
1:40.7	And it's a pretty exciting time if you like Formula One because now there's another big place that's covering him. And we get into a lot of the media issues of the sport in terms of what access is like, how one covers Formula One. Certainly we talked about Drive to Survive and its impact on the popularity of the sport and how much is it drive to survive?
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