From our Better Late Than Never Dept: The NFL says requests for media credentials for this weekend’s Super Bowel are down for the first time in recent memory. According to Joe Strupp at Editor & Publisher, two major dailies — the Atlanta journal-Constitution and the Hartford Courant — are not sending anyone to what is arguably the most boring game of this or any season, which is really saying something when it comes to American “football.” And The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Dallas Morning News all are sending fewer staffers than in previous years, probably because all three have fewer staffers, period.
Says Chris Vivlamore, AJC pro sports editor, “Part of it is the cost and we want to do more local stories.” Good on you, Chris. How about taking a stab at covering something that hasn’t already been beaten to death on TV — like, uh, say, bicycle racing?
Meanwhile, here’s an interesting piece from American Journalism Review: Robert Hodierne catches up with a few ex-newsies to ask, “Is there life after newspapers?”
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