Sports Media With Richard Deitsch

Episode 246 of the Sports Media Podcast features a sports media conversation with Boston Globe sports media writer Chad Finn and The Big Lead editor in chief Kyle Koster. They are followed by J.A. Adande, the Director of Sports Journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and the editor of the new anthology, “Year’s Best Sports Writing 2022.” In this podcast, Finn and Koster discuss showing replays of injuries on NFL broadcasts; how brain injuries are talked about on air;  Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit discussing Tua’s Tagovailoa injury; Amazon Prime Video’s Week 4 viewership of 11.7 million viewers; will a TV deal for LIV ever come and will sponsors want to be part of it; complaints over college football cut-ins for Aaron Judge; what we think about the upcoming NHL coverage and more. Adande discusses the editing process for Triumph Books’ Year’s Best Sports Writing 2022; what he was looking for with submissions; finding stories that reflect the current moment in sports; where we are