The Washington Post may cut its sports section amid massive layoffs
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Episode 586 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Sports Business Journal media writer Austin Karp and CBC Sports host Donnovan Bennett. In this podcast we discuss the reporting that the Washington Post may cut its sports section amid massive layoffs; the disbanding of The Washington Post; how there are no safe harbour jobs in sports journalism in 2026; the Super Bowl matchup and how it plays as a viewership game; Austin’s prediction that the Seahawks-Patriots will set a new viewership record; Caitlin Clark being hired by NBC’s NBA coverage; SBJ’s story on the NFL Monday Wild Card window and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.
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| 0:21.1 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:38.9 | I'm your host, Richard Dutch. |
| 0:39.7 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:42.1 | This is a sports media roundtable, |
| 0:44.2 | and we have two of the regulars. |
| 0:45.5 | Austin Karp is the sports media reporter |
| 0:47.8 | at the Sports Business Journal. |
| 0:50.8 | Donovan Beddett will be contributing to CBC's excellent Olympics coverage. |
| 0:56.1 | You'll be able to catch him on various CBC channels. |
| 1:00.3 | I will be writing for the CBC during the Olympics, so that's pretty exciting as well. |
| 1:04.1 | But Donovan is the face where I am behind the scenes, so you'll be able to catch him doing many different things. |
| 1:10.7 | Welcome Donovan, welcome Austin. Glad to be back. behind the scenes so you'll be able to catch him doing many different things welcome |
| 1:11.0 | Donovan welcome Austin glad to be back all right thanks so much for having me |
| 1:16.8 | Richard you got it's so polite between both of you it's very nice all right I'm |
| 1:21.7 | gonna start with you Austin this is still obviously something in flux but we've |
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