What happens to sports media if Twitter implodes?
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Episode 254 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with Sean Keeley, the Editorial Strategy Director at Comeback Media and the creator of Nunes Magician. Last week Keeley wrote a piece, “What happens to sports media if Twitter dies?” and that’s the topic of our conversation. In this podcast, we discuss Sean’s piece with multiple sports media members and what they believed the impact of Twitter is; what the social media site's ending would mean for them individually; the impact of Twitter on careers; the wave of impersonations, including Adam Schefter and LeBron James, on Twitter and what it means; the utility of sports Twitter; how advertisers see the product right now; how individual sports media people monetarized a large Twitter following; what a Twitter alternative for sports might look like; whether any large sports media organization would direct its employees to leave the site and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. One guest this week and a conversation I am looking forward to. Sean Keely is the editorial strategy director at comeback media. |
| 0:21.7 | Comeback Media includes awful announcing and comeback. |
| 0:25.0 | He is the creator of Noon's Magician, which is a very popular blog on Syracuse University. |
| 0:33.3 | If you happen to be listening to this and you're a circus alum, I'm positive you have heard of that. |
| 0:38.9 | A really well-known and well-respected blog in that space. |
| 0:42.5 | Last week, he wrote a piece, What Happens to Sports Media if Twitter dies? |
| 0:47.3 | Great piece, Unawful Announcing. |
| 0:48.6 | I totally recommend it. |
| 0:50.4 | And that will be the topic of our conversation today. Before I introduce Sean or bring Sean in, |
| 0:57.2 | I should say, I don't know if I'm don't do this at the top, but I did want to just sort of note two things. |
| 1:01.0 | One, since the last podcast, news came out that Britton Griner has been sent to a Russian penal quality to serve a sentence. |
| 1:12.4 | And, you know, we have had T.J. Quinn on this podcast a number of times as well with Dr. |
| 1:16.0 | Danny Gilbert, hostage expert when it comes to this stuff a number of times on that topic. |
| 1:21.7 | Obviously, people know I covered women's basketball for a long time. |
| 1:25.0 | So, you know, as a sort of citizen in the United States, it should piss you off |
| 1:30.4 | to the highest level. I mean, the sentence is a total fraud. The entire justice, if that's even the right |
| 1:38.7 | word of that, was an absolute disgrace. It's a fucking American being held captive in a foreign |
| 1:43.7 | country. So |
| 1:44.5 | continue to read about it would be my sort of advice. It's obviously not much those of us can do |
| 1:51.2 | who are not involved in any potential negotiations, but I just hope that story does not go away. |
| 1:55.6 | I mean, again, it is an American citizen wrongfully in prison being sent to a Russian penal colony. |
| 2:00.7 | And then Fred Hickman, who for a brief time, citizen wrongfully in prison being sent to a Russian penal colony. |
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