ESPN has poached New York Times investigative reporter and presidential golf expert Don Van Natta Jr., the company announced today. ESPN senior vice president Rob King was utterly transparent about what his hiring should prove to readers. “Having a well-respected, veteran investigative reporter like Don Van Natta on board is a testament to Read More
It's not quite playing video games on acid, but it'll do: Deadspin just got their hands on ESPN's 2010 Editorial Standards and 2010 Advertising Standards manuals. What's in the Worldwide Leader's ethics guide? Read More
ESPN Radio’s recent efforts to drive ratings by cultivating “personalities,” a la Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, seem thus far to have driven in-house rivalries. “I will say to you that the impediment to being a journalist is that you had to maintain total objectivity,” said ESPN Radio host Stephen A. Smith on Thursday. The Read More
The interesting thing about Grantland, Bill Simmons' new sports and culture web site for ESPN, is not so much that Bill Simmons is starting a new web site, or that Malcolm Gladwell, Dave Eggers and Chuck Klosterman will be writing for it, or that there was some drama surrounding the hire of Deadspin's Read More
For at least half the population, the mourning over the shuttered ESPN Zone was short and sweet. On, we hope, to better things, as the Durst Organization has put the 45,000-square-foot Times Square mega-space back on the market.
Though ESPN's testorone-fueled hub at the base of 4 Times Square shuttered last spring, Disney has been using Read More
Thrillist, looking to tap the boom in local ad dollars, is expanding its NY-based guide to men's lifestyle and entertainment across the nation through two big new partnerships.
Paid Content reported today that Thrillist will be partnering with the Huffington Post and ESPN, taking its content beyond a newsletter and setting it live on the Read More
ESPN will not be publishing any version of reporter Arash Markazi's story about a night LeBron James spent at a nightclub and hotel in Las Vegas after the piece was removed from ESPN's servers on Wednesday morning. The network claims that Mr. Markazi did not identify himself as a reporter while he was working Read More
Last night at 1:30 a.m Eastern Time, ESPN published a story by reporter Arash Markazi about a night LeBron James spent out in the nightclub Tao in Las Vegas. It was a great read! By this morning, the story had been removed.
A spokeswoman for ESPN said that the story was published by accident. "The story Read More
ESPN The Magazine will move operations from Manhattan to the network's headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut by September 2011 as part of a larger effort to integrate the magazine more fully with the on-air brand, according to The New York Times.
Editorially speaking, this new strategy will mean more "topical packages" for the magazine. This year Read More
We can all list some of the well-documented ways that The Wall Street Journal has changed under Rupert Murdoch: More color on the front page! Snappier headlines! A women’s magazine! More politically conservative (maybe)!
But this is one we didn’t expect: The Journal is getting sportier!
The Journal’s New York sports section will assign beat reporters to Read More
For the first time in decades, a new cable outlet is in town! Farewell USA and hello ESPN (well, ESPN2 technically). For the most part, we're enjoying what we're seeing. Here's a breakdown:
Things We Like:
Mary Carillo: We never understood why Carillo, the best voice for tennis on ESPN, NBC and CBS (not to mention HBO Read More
“If I were a football player, I would be a quarterback,” Erin Andrews, ESPN’s blond bombshell of a sideline reporter, told the Daily Transom on Friday night, April 24. “It’s the most important!”
We would have guessed tight end.
Sporting a blue dress and heels, Playboy's 2009 Sexiest Sportcaster of the Year–fresh Read More
Last night, on April 6, Tom Glocer, chief executive of Thomson Reuters, was sipping a Corona at Drop.io 's headquarters, a spacious, brick-ceilinged loft on Jay Street in downtown Brooklyn. Mr. Glocer was there to participate in a Futurists Meetup, talking about what financial news and data will look like in 30 Read More
Overheard on ESPN SportsCenter this morning during a review of last night's Lindsay Davenport match: "A rally ensued, as it so often does in this sport."
