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Charlotte Observer is losing both of its Carolina Panthers beat writers

TheSpecialJuan

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13 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

It is all been pretty interesting to watch over the past 15 years from behind the scenes.

 

The Panthers used to need the media as much as the media needed them. Those days are long gone. The internet and social media have completely demolished the barrier of entry to providing information on a mass scale. No printing press needed. No distribution. No paid advertising.

Anyone under 50 and interested in the Panthers know they can go right to the source and follow them on any social media platform and their web page. For the vast majority of Panthers fans, that is plenty. The Observer is an after thought. The hard core fans need more, and that will sustain joints like this and RR, but the Observer and even ESPN to some degree are hurting due to huge overheads.

Now instead of the Observer seen as a necessary evil, they are the competition as far as the Panthers are concerned. They are likely happy to see such turnover there.

I don’t know why they would be happy about that or see other outlets as competition. From their perspective, they just want coverage. The more attention the better. They don’t make money from this stuff after all. Their goal is to make people excited about the team so they sell more tickets, jerseys, etc. 

Regardless, I liked Jourdan’s  writing. However, I can’t remember a time where she (or any beat reporter) wrote something that I hadn’t already heard here.

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1 minute ago, Jeremy Igo said:

The only real problem I have with any of this is that the Panthers have taken and continue to take public money. As such, they owe it to the community to give the local media all of the access they themselves have.

If they didn't use our money I would have no issue with them just keeping all news in-house. They are just an entertainment company afterall. Nothing of actual importance.

But since they use taxpayer funds they should be obligated to give outside media the exact same opportunity to cover what their own in house media does.

Instead of that, why dont they just have an agreement to share the information they have? This is interesting though... the PUBLIC gived money to the Panthers ( Entertainment). Yet, the news media do not have access?

 

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9 minutes ago, Devil Doc said:

Instead of that, why dont they just have an agreement to share the information they have? This is interesting though... the PUBLIC gived money to the Panthers ( Entertainment). Yet, the news media do not have access?

 

They have access, just not the same level or amount of access as their own internal news media. I feel it should be equal.

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The problem with news now is anyone with a inkling of the current political environment knows you have to take everything reported with a grain of salt.  How accurate is it due to the biases of the reporter?  That's what really hurt ESPN is when they started down the slippery slope of opinion-based news and then just stepped in a pile of dung when they went full-bore political.  ESPNs CEO even recently admitted it was a mistake.  People want the news, factual and unbiased.  They already have their political beliefs and don't want a sports reporter, of all people, trying to tell them how right the ills of world.

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Interesting discussion.  

If Jourdan IS leaving (which I still haven't seen publicly announced / confirmed) I will be very sad.  I enjoy her wit / fun metaphors, combined with her solid research and football smarts.  She's been a very very solid part of the Panthers beat. Consistently asks excellent questions at pressers.

Beyond the question of the Panthers beat, the decline of local journalism really concerns me, even from far away. Trusted, reliable news sources seem like a pretty important foundation to democracy, whether in Charlotte or West Africa.

Social media and personalized news feeds allow people to live in their own bubbles and never have their biases challenged by good writing from an opposing viewpoint.

I won't say more lest this become too political for this forum!

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1 minute ago, mjligon said:

The same beat writers that never broke a single story about a free agent visit or signing ever

That's the problem with having new beat writers, no time to develop the relationships that provide that inside info. Takes years and years.

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I bought a year subscription to the Athletic at some stupidly discounted price. Its refreshing to pull out my iPad and feel like I'm reading a newspaper. I don't have to be assaulted by the opinions of Stephen A Smith and don't have to worry that I am reading something written by someone in the basement pretending to be a beat writer. It is worth the handful of dollars a month I pay. The Athletic's Hurricanes reporter is a great read. Joe Person's stuff has increased in value as it seems he is not feeling the pressure from the Observer to start media room fires...

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Just now, mjligon said:

The same beat writers that never broke a single story about a free agent visit or signing ever

Eh, in the age of Twitter I don't care so much about who breaks that news.  What Jourdan has done so well is build rapport and trust with many in the locker room that gives her some opportunities to do more in-depth behind the scenes stuff on things like Pep and hurricane relief, or Ian Thomas and autism.  Her human interest stories re: players, and even Tepper have been top notch.

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1 minute ago, KB_fan said:

Eh, in the age of Twitter I don't care so much about who breaks that news.  What Jourdan has done so well is build rapport and trust with many in the locker room that gives her some opportunities to do more in-depth behind the scenes stuff on things like Pep and hurricane relief, or Ian Thomas and autism.  Her human interest stories re: players, and even Tepper have been top notch.

I agree. But it’s different strokes i guess.

i don’t find much interest in reading about those behind the scenes articles, although I know they’re well done.

losing Jourdan does suck, but it doesn’t effect how my news is delivered

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13 minutes ago, KB_fan said:

Social media and personalized news feeds allow people to live in their own bubbles and never have their biases challenged by good writing from an opposing viewpoint.

I won't say more lest this become too political for this forum!

It amazes me how many people are completely blind to this. They can create their own "truth" and ignore or ridicule anything to the contrary.

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