ch...ch...changes at the local dead tree media

[SpaceRaider]

 

[MTFNBY5]

How many changes does this make since Gannett took Sparks to the VU beat in Nashville? Hard to keep up.

And IMHO the moves "up" are not because of how well the recent writers have done covering MT.

 

[AustinLewis]

How many changes does this make since Gannett took Sparks to the VU beat in Nashville? Hard to keep up.

And IMHO the moves "up" are not because of how well the recent writers have done covering MT.

I think this is 4 different people in 4 years :
Adam Sparks
Aldo Amato
Erik Bacharach
Luis Torres
https://twitter.com/ErikBacharach/status/1010256447731531777

 

[SpaceRaider]

I think this is 4 different people in 4 years :
Adam Sparks
Aldo Amato
Erik Bacharach
Luis Torres

Sparks was the last one that was a native Tennessean and MT graduate - trying to think of any of the line of beat writers that weren't before that.

 

[blueboro007]

Erik who??? He became MIA months ago

 

[MightyRaider]

I think this is 4 different people in 4 years :
Adam Sparks
Aldo Amato
Erik Bacharach
Luis Torres

You forgot Will Borthick. Most will say he was a UT homer ect but he was the best post sparks era beat writer.

 

[AustinLewis]

You forgot Will Borthick. Most will say he was a UT homer ect but he was the best post sparks era beat writer.

Thanks for the correction. The DNJ has had five MT beat writers in five years.

 

[MightyRaider]

Thanks for the correction. The DNJ has had five MT beat writers in five years.

Insane. They might as well be the Mtsu athletic dept employees at this point. They write nothing of substance. Pretty much just copy and paste goblueraider articles.

 

[MTLynn]

The MT beat writer will likely continue to be a revolving door until the dnj goes under

 

[RaiderDawg78]

In all seriousness, how many subscribers would this site need for one of the writers to quit their day job and cover MT full time?

That’s the only way we will get decent coverage.

 

[C-Bow]

In all seriousness, how many subscribers would this site need for one of the writers to quit their day job and cover MT full time?

That’s the only way we will get decent coverage.

^Now we're talking.^

In all honesty, to turn the site into a revenue stream that I'm assuming falls in line with a beat writer payscale, we would need to have around 500 annual subscribers. That would be enough to entice someone to take the beat on full time.

Now I would also say if we got to HALF that number, I could get enough writers on the payroll to ensure we churned out daily content.

 

[AustinLewis]

^Now we're talking.^

In all honesty, to turn the site into a revenue stream that I'm assuming falls in line with a beat writer payscale, we would need to have around 500 annual subscribers. That would be enough to entice someone to take the beat on full time.

Now I would also say if we got to HALF that number, I could get enough writers on the payroll to ensure we churned out daily content.

This is why subscribing is such a big deal for the site. When I was publisher of the site from 2010-2012, the income I generated from subs was barely enough to cover gas traveling to the Boro.

 

[SpaceRaider]

It was interesting listening to Monte Hale and Tony Stinnett talking during the last half of Monte's show on wgns this afternoon about the changes they've seen to sports coverage by the papers over their years in sports media...


http://www.wgnsradio.com/podcast-all-sports-talk-6-27-18-cms-46117