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Title: The Vols beat is changing Post by: Creek Walker on July 19, 2017, 04:29:06 EDT Mike Strange is retiring from the News Sentinel. The reason why is disheartening.
http://www.knoxtntoday.com/big-mike-is-moving-on/ Gannett (which now owns all of Tennessee's big three dailies, plus a couple of smaller dailies in Middle Tennessee) has radically changed the landscape of printed news in Tennessee, and not for the better. Mike's approach is ho-hum and some people find that boring, but he's one of the good guys in the world of sports writing. Title: Re: The Vols beat is changing Post by: PirateVOL on July 19, 2017, 05:07:01 EDT Mike Strange is retiring from the News Sentinel. The reason why is disheartening. That sucks - leaves us with the resident #badword# in sports at the KNS, who's writing pales in comparison to Mike's as well.http://www.knoxtntoday.com/big-mike-is-moving-on/ Gannett (which now owns all of Tennessee's big three dailies, plus a couple of smaller dailies in Middle Tennessee) has radically changed the landscape of printed news in Tennessee, and not for the better. Mike's approach is ho-hum and some people find that boring, but he's one of the good guys in the world of sports writing. Title: Re: The Vols beat is changing Post by: Tnphil on July 19, 2017, 05:48:09 EDT Since Gannett took over our local paper here it's gone right down the toilet. It's become more of USA Today. Sports section has gone down the tubes. We have a AA baseball team here that's a farm system for the AZ. Diamondbacks.....To get their scores day to day I have to go on the team website because the paper here in the same town as the AA team doesn't even put scores in the paper anymore. After 30 plus years I'm about to cancel.
Title: Re: The Vols beat is changing Post by: Creek Walker on July 20, 2017, 12:31:10 EDT Since Gannett took over our local paper here it's gone right down the toilet. It's become more of USA Today. Sports section has gone down the tubes. We have a AA baseball team here that's a farm system for the AZ. Diamondbacks.....To get their scores day to day I have to go on the team website because the paper here in the same town as the AA team doesn't even put scores in the paper anymore. After 30 plus years I'm about to cancel. The way they've gutted their TN papers is sad. I read the big three every day, and they've not only become carbon copies of one another but their news coverage has become stale and generic. No wonder; the first thing Gannett did when they purchased KNS was lay off 25% of the editorial staff. Local news went out the window in favor of this statewide "USA Today Network" nonsense. And if Mike Strange is right, real sports coverage is about to become a thing of the past as well. I get that the metro and national dailies are struggling to find their identity in the new digital world. I don't know the best way forward for those papers. If I did, I'd give up my role, purchase one of them, and turn it around. But I'm convinced that the path Gannett has chosen is not the best way forward. Title: Re: The Vols beat is changing Post by: PirateVOL on July 20, 2017, 01:16:42 EDT This
Title: Re: The Vols beat is changing Post by: HerbTarlekVol on July 20, 2017, 06:28:07 EDT The News-Sentinel is nothing more than USA Today's "community" paper in Knoxville. Gannett and like companies have ruined the newspaper business.
Title: Re: The Vols beat is changing Post by: LouisVOL on July 20, 2017, 03:29:46 EDT Exact same thing in Louisville. Several of the former reporters are now in TV, either on air or writing blogs. By far, the best sports coverage locally is from blogs on the TV websites.
The way they've gutted their TN papers is sad. I read the big three every day, and they've not only become carbon copies of one another but their news coverage has become stale and generic. No wonder; the first thing Gannett did when they purchased KNS was lay off 25% of the editorial staff. Local news went out the window in favor of this statewide "USA Today Network" nonsense. And if Mike Strange is right, real sports coverage is about to become a thing of the past as well. I get that the metro and national dailies are struggling to find their identity in the new digital world. I don't know the best way forward for those papers. If I did, I'd give up my role, purchase one of them, and turn it around. But I'm convinced that the path Gannett has chosen is not the best way forward. Title: Re: The Vols beat is changing Post by: Tnphil on July 20, 2017, 04:36:04 EDT Exact same thing in Louisville. Several of the former reporters are now in TV, either on air or writing blogs. By far, the best sports coverage locally is from blogs on the TV websites. Same here.....I go to our local TV station website and get better information than the paper gives. There is also a local radio station that does well on news and sports on their website. Title: Re: The Vols beat is changing Post by: Coupe De VOL on July 20, 2017, 10:46:48 EDT It would seem now is the time for some entrepreneur to move in and create a mobile based local news service. Personally, I hate the idea, but it seems the landscape is ripe for it.
Title: Re: The Vols beat is changing Post by: BanditVol on July 21, 2017, 04:53:26 EDT A rare point of agreement...I liked Strange. Down to Earth and commonsense.
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