About
What they told me: Newspapers are dying. It’s time to jump ship. Get out while you can. There’s no future in journalism.
What I told them: I want to know why.
I’m a former sports reporter who walked away from my beat to find out why newspapers are struggling, what they can do about it and how the Internet is changing the way the media does business. After a decade in the field, I’m now a doctoral fellow in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where I study journalists’ routines and how they are evolving. My research also focuses on media sociology, sports media and communications, media history and media-law issues. I’ve presented my research at regional and national AEJMC conferences.
I worked for the Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, NY) and The Times Herald (Olean, N.Y.). I’ve written for The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Baltimore Sun, among others. I’ve covered college basketball, minor-league baseball, the NCAA Tournament, the NHL playoffs, and the NFL, NBA and MLB. I voted in the AP men’s basketball Top 25 and broke coverage of the 2003 St. Bonaventure men’s basketball recruiting scandal.
Some day, I’ll write a book. Until then, I’m proudly shouting my observations here.
If you want to know more about me, here’s my CV.
