The Challenges of Covering a Super Bowl: Guests are Jim Trotter, Jane McManus, and Chris Herring

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Episode 181 of the Sports Media Podcast features three guests. First up is Jim Trotter, a reporter for NFL Media and a longtime NFL writer and Jane McManus, the Director of the Marist's Center for Sports Communication. They are followed by Chris Herring, a Sports Illustrated senior writer and NYT best-selling author of “Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks.” In this podcast, Trotter and McManus discuss covering a Super Bowl; how journalists can separate themselves with so many media people; coverage of Brian Flores filing a 58-page class-action discrimination against the league and all 32 teams alleging discrimination in their hiring practices; the allegations and testimony of former Washington Commanders employers regarding of workplace misconduct; separating yourself against competition at the Super Bowl; Super Bowl viewership expectations; is there anything that could turn people away from the NFL; Herring discusses the 1990s Knicks and why people care about them; how would things be different had they beat the Rockets; covering NBA Trade deadline week; working for SI, ESPN, Five Thirty Eight and Wall Street Journal; 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 Dijt and welcome to the sports media podcast. producer is Patrick Antenetti. Two segments this week, three guests. Totally enjoyed both of these quite a lot. First up, Jim Trotter, a reporter for NFL media, longtime NFL writer, my former colleague in Sports Illustrated, and Jane McManus, the director of the Maris Center for Sports Communication, former ESPN writer, and longtime sports journals as well, one of my favorite people in the business.
1:33.7	We had a great discussion on how to cover the Super Bowl, how to make yourself a little bit different.
1:39.5	And then we got really into the Brian Flores, class action discrimination suit against the league, as well as the
1:45.6	allegations and testimony of former Washington commander's employees regarding workplace misconduct
1:51.9	and just how those stories have been covered by multiple outlets.
1:55.8	So Jim Troutenor and Jane McManus are always great to have on.
1:58.6	Finish up with Chris Herring, a Sports Illustrated senior writer.
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