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Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

The future of hockey reporting with Michael Farber, ESPN’s Emily Kaplan, and Michael Russo and Fluto Shinzawa of The Athletic

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3721 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Episode 177 of the Sports Media Podcast features four guests for a roundtable on the future of hockey reporting. The guests are Michael Farber, the Hall of Fame hockey writer and longtime Sports Illustrated writer and TSN contributor; ESPN hockey reporter Emily Kaplan, Michael Russo, a senior writer covering the Minnesota Wild and the NHL for The Athletic and Fluto Shinzawa, a senior writer for The Athletic covering the Boston Bruins In this podcast the panel evaluates the state of hockey reporting in 2022; defining access in 2022; the most under-reported stories; hockey culture and the reporting on mental health and sexual abuse by Rick Westhead and Katie Strang;  who is covering the sport and where the sport’s media is regarding people of color covering it; will ESPN and Turner make a difference good or bad in NHL coverage; the role of analytics in the sport heading forward; the next iteration of reporting 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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0:00.0

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0:37.3

Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich. Welcome to the Sports Media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. This week, a really, really good podcast. Very fortunate to get these people. We are doing a roundtable on the future of hockey reporting, which obviously, of course, includes what is currently going on with

0:55.8

hockey reporting. The guests are Michael Farber, the Hall of Fame Hockey Writer and

0:59.6

longtime Sports Illustrated writer and TSN contributor, ESPN Hockey Reporter Emily Kaplan, Michael

1:05.5

Russo, senior writer covering the Minnesota Wilde and the NHL for the athletic, and

1:10.0

Fluto Shinsawa, a senior writer for the

1:12.4

athletic covering the Boston Bruins and obviously a longtime Boston Globe writer before that.

1:18.5

It's a really, I think, thoughtful and smart and informative discussion on the state of hockey

1:26.4

reporting in 2022 and where it will go in the future.

1:31.1

Don't want to take any more time regarding my usually long intros.

1:35.6

Let's get right to the panel on the sports media podcast.

1:42.5

All right, as I said at the top, this is a very distinguished panel, and it would probably take 45 minutes for me to do all their resume stuff.

1:51.2

So I'm going to try to limit it to a one-sentence stuff.

1:55.1

Michael Farber, my longtime colleague at Sports Illustrated, Hall of Fame hockey writer, long-time TSN contributor.

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