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Charlotte Observer is losing both of its Carolina Panthers beat writers


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1 hour ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Media coverage is changing in a big way around here. If the Panthers could flick a switch and have its own in house Media group be the exclusive provider they would, and each year they move closer to that. 

Bad news for journalism but not surprising.

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35 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Not sure. The Athletic is an interesting business model but similar ones have always failed within 3 years.

What is their business model?  Is it different than other online sports sites?

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3 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

long form pay to read. 

Yea there are too many free sources of mid level reporting to pay for the Athletic. Bill Voth has been solid since he joined the Panthers and they self report pretty well, but there definitely needs to be an independent source for Panthers news and we all know David Newton isn’t going to be enough.

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10 minutes ago, hepcat said:

Yea there are too many free sources of mid level reporting to pay for the Athletic. Bill Voth has been solid since he joined the Panthers and they self report pretty well, but there definitely needs to be an independent source for Panthers news and we all know David Newton isn’t going to be enough.

The Observer will hire more. They seem to have a serious retention problem though. Thats 3 beat writers in just a year. Used to be a beat writer would be around for decades. 

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2 hours ago, Adb6368 said:

I stopped reading when the observer decided it was a smart idea to put a page limit on free reads.

Of course it was a smart idea. If you can get everything for free, why subscribe?

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