The media impact of LeBron James moving to the Los Angeles Lakers

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Episode 13 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features three separate guests: Tania Ganguli, who covers the Lakers for the Los Angeles Times; Sports Illustrated national NBA writer Lee Jenkins, and Dave McMenamin, an NBA reporter for ESPN. The theme of the podcast is the media impact of LeBron James moving from Cleveland to Los Angeles. In this podcast, Ganguli discusses how James coming to the Lakers impacts her job and why; how she learned of James coming to the Lakers; whether there is added pressure now in her role; her previous contact with James as a beat writer; the added interest in James content among her bosses L.A. Times; how competitive she expect the beat to be now with James there; whether the Lakers will make additional moves later this summer, and much more. Jenkins discusses how he viewed the manner in which James announced this move; the most interesting part of James’s move nationally; whether access will change now that James is in L.A.; attempting to contact James after the news was announced; what the signing of DeMarcus Cousins means league-wide, and much more. McMenamin discusses where he learned of the news and whether he expected it; what it will be like covering the Cavs next year; how this might impact his job; the national interest in the Cavs over the next three years; whether Kevin Love will become the defacto player spokesperson for the team; his advice to reporters covering James fulltime, 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.
0:06.0	My producer, as always, is Lou Pellegrino.
0:08.1	We'll give you a short intro here because I want to get to three great guests.
0:11.6	Tanya Ganguly covers the Los Angeles Lakers for the L.A. Times.
0:15.9	Lee Jenkins is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated.
0:18.9	Dave McMeneman is a senior writer and reporter for ESPN.
0:22.9	We are doing an entire podcast on LeBron James' move to Los Angeles,
0:27.6	what that means for a beat person like Tanya,
0:32.3	what that means for a national writer,
0:34.6	covers the NBA like Lee Jenkins,
0:36.1	and what it means for the people who are left
0:39.0	behind in Cleveland covering the Cleveland Cavalier. So Tanya Ganguly, Lee Jenkins, and Dave
0:46.0	McMedaman, all coming up on the sports media podcast with Richard Deich. Okay, and as promised
0:51.8	at the break, we start with Tanya Ganguly.
0:54.3	She covers the Lakers for the Los Angeles Times.
0:57.6	Previously, she was at the Florida Times Union, the Houston Chronicle, NESPN.
1:03.4	Her bio at the L.A. Times says she previously spent six years covering JJ Watts' avocado consumption.
1:09.3	I did not know, I did not know, Trey-Chu.
1:12.6	There's a comma missing, I think, there. Just one of the things I covered for six years. Yeah, exactly. Who knew JJ
1:19.0	loved avocado so much? And also has worked for the Orlando Sentinel and the Louisville Courier
1:26.5	Journal, obviously, has worked at a lot of
1:28.4	great news organizations and Tanya Genguli joins us on the sports media podcast. Tanya, thank you
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