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Hey there I'm Joshua Johnson today on one a the future of sports journalism from Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier to the sexual assault scandal of gymnastics coach to Collin Kaplan it taking a police brutality to female athletes demanding equal pay the news of sports is getting harder to report the irreverent Web site Deadspin is just one outlet struggling to survive and report on the stories behind the game how it is I'm doing and where does it go from here we'd love to hear from you especially if you are a sports journalist comment on our Facebook page or tweet us. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Janine Herbst the Justice Department's inspector general is testifying before Congress at this hour answering questions about his report the found the f.b.i. Did not act out of political bias when it opened an investigation into the $26000.00 Trump campaign Michael Horowitz says he was concerned that so many quote basic and fundamental errors were made by the f.b.i. In investigating ties between Trump's campaign and Russia but his report also found the f.b.i. Had proper cause to open the investigation President Trump is planning to sign an executive order today intended to combat anti-Semitism on college campuses but as N.P.R.'s Joel Snyder reports there are fears the move could be used to limit criticism of Israel the president's decision to sign the order was 1st reported by The New York Times which says it would allow the government to withhold federal aid to college campuses that failed to combat anti semitism the orders expected to extend protections against discrimination to Jewish students under Title 6 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act essential directing that Judaism be regarded not just as a religion but as a race or nationality as well but as they should to combat anti semitism amid a boycott Israel movement that has caused tension on some college campuses has stalled in Congress even though it has drawn bipartisan support critics say such a policy change could end up suppressing legitimate speech about Israeli policies trial Snyder n.p.r. News Washington Jersey City Mayor Steven fall of says authorities think a kosher market was targeted in a gun battle yesterday that left 6 people including the 2 gunmen dead although he didn't elaborate on why he thinks the market was targeted and full of says authorities are working to help people heal we could see the van moving through Jersey City streets slowly the perpetrator stopped to be in front of their calmly open the door with 2 long rifles came in and the other perpetrator and began firing from the 3 units you. The facility a police officer and 3 bystanders are among the dead British political leaders are racing around the country today trying to win votes before tomorrow's crucial general election N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt reports Prime Minister Boris Johnson is pledging finally to get Bracks it done by contrast Jeremy Corbyn leader of the opposition Labor Party is campaigning to turn Britain into a social democracy with free university tuition but voters like Stephen Brown who works in the pharmaceutical industry are skeptical I think I'm probably going to vote Conservative because the guy who was presenting a manifesto which is on financially supports move to move the party for another 30 years Boris Johnson's Conservative Party heading for a small parliamentary majority in tomorrow's vote but the British electorate is unpredictable and has defied the polls in several recent elections Frank Langfitt n.p.r. News London and you're listening to n.p.r. . Me and our leader Aung San Suu Kyi is at the World Court leading her country's defense against accusations of genocide against its rocking a Muslim minority Gambia launched a case against me in mar the International Court of Justice the UN's highest court alleging it violated the 1948 Genocide Convention the Federal Reserve is expected to leave the benchmark interest rate alone the board is wrapping up its 2 day meeting and economists think it will signal it expects rates to remain low well into the next year the Fed has cut rates 3 times this year so far the Library of Congress has announced the newest additions to the National Film Registry As N.P.R.'s Neda Ulaby reports each year the Library picks $25.00 films to be preserved for posterity the registry promotes film preservation and highlights historic films Oh. Historic films like The prince movie Purple Rain from 1904 the oldest movie a silent short from $1000.00 No 3 shows immigrants arriving in Ellis Island their picks this year include Spike Lee's she's gotta have it and the 1959 animated distain movie Sleeping Beauty in unprecedented number of films by women were selected this year including the independent Oscar winner Boys Don't Cry and Madeline Anderson's film I am somebody from 1970 it's considered the 1st documentary on civil rights directed by a woman of color native lippy n.p.r. News all straight as trading and mixed territory at this hour the Dow is down $62.00 points at 27818 the Nasdaq up 9 points at 8625 the s. And p. 500 is up 3 points I'm Janine Herbst And you're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations and other contributors include I drive maker of remote p.c. Providing real time remote access to computers anywhere and featuring remote p.c. Vision and augment it a reality support tool to learn more at remote p.c. Dot com support for programming is provided by the way a mess and the need for senior home care continues to grow so does the need for certified caregivers the Smeaton home training program can teach you skills earn more and u.m.s. Caregiving dot org. This is one essay I'm Joshua Johnson in Washington sports journalism in America has always been about life on and off the field this is the 1st year that it's good to see you with other users this is the 1st time this year is the 1st year that I've been it's bigger than the n.b.a. Used to get a basketball because what's happened in search of uses of human to treasure Michael Sam. I'm a football player and I'm gay shortly after the release of a conversation that it legibly included Clippers owner Donald Sterling the n.b.a. Commenced an investigation on would you like to fight and we are in life and live to fight live the things the best the number one man I'm not sure that there's anybody left really boy in a fight I knew. From Collin Kaplan make of the n.f.l. Refusing to kneel for the national anthem to end his cancer of the n.b.a. Speaking out about Turkey's president Richard Tayyip Erdogan to Howard Cosell is infamous interview with the boxing legend Mohammad Ali sports have never been just about the game but covering sports can kind of be a tightrope walk with play by play on one side and harder hitting investigations and commentary on the other 2 bastions of sports journalism a fallen on hard times while trying to walk that tightrope Sports Illustrated and Deadspin Sports Illustrated's owners recently cut half the staff citing financial concerns Deadspin employees recently walked off the job on mass after their corporate owner told them to quote stick to sports what's causing this recent fall in favor for some sports journalism outlets should sports journalists stick to sports or bring in things like politics and business and culture joining us from n.p.r. New York is Laura Wagner a senior staff writer for advice and a former staff writer for Deadspin Laura welcome to one day thanks for having me joining us from w.b. You are. In Boston is Karen given the executive producer of its sports program only a game Karen welcome thank you and with us from w.p.s. You at Penn State is John Affleck he's the Knight Chair of sports journalism and society and a professor at the university's Bellisario College of communications he's also a former reporter and editor for the a.p. Professor Affleck good to have you with us glad to be here we'd love to hear from you too especially if you are or were a sports journalist maybe you're a fan of Sports Illustrated or Deadspin or journalism on any platform you like tell us about the responsibility that you feel sports reporting has to deal with wider issues beyond just balls and strikes and winners and losers email us one day at w a n u dot org comment on our Facebook page or tweet us at one a Karen given Let me start with you is there a difference when we say say sports journalism and other kinds of sports coverage what do we mean in your view when we're talking about sports journalism Oh that's interesting so yeah I think there is a difference I mean I think that the broadcasters the people who are doing play by play are doing that in service of the product right and the product at that point is a bit of an entertainment product so their job is to get you excited about the game to keep you listening to or watching the game to keep your interest level high but I think as journalists we have a much deeper and much broader mission right like our job isn't just to tell you who's winning the game but to tell you everything else that is going on behind the scenes not just in you know putting those teams together who is coaching what their theories are but also these deeper broader issues about you know the players themselves and what they're facing and what we all face in this world I mean as a sports journalist I use sports as a lens to look at the world so I'm not just. Looking at what's happening on the field I'm looking at how the what's happening on the field in or plays with what's happening on the ground in the world in our lives so controversial question number one Karen is play by play journalism or just broadcast Well I mean so people who do play by play would probably disagree with me but I would call that broadcasting and not journalism Laura let's build on that in terms of why in your view sports journalism matters why sports are something worth covering for the public at large even for people who say oh well I'm not really into sports I just I'm much more interested in news and public affairs and what's really going on in the real world sports are really for me right yeah I think there's a perception that sports kind of happen in a vacuum that it separate from the rest of the world but I think that is a little shortsighted everything that happens in sports as Karen said whether it's labor or race or politics or you know issues and society that also are happening in sports like domestic violence for example all of these things are very much a part of sports and to say that sports are sort of a thing apart I think is misguided for us reflects sometimes the sports department can be referred to as the toy department including among some people who do sports journalism because you know you get to cover a lot of the fun stuff I get that but there's kind of a perception based in the you know maybe sports journalism isn't the most serious of subjects or not something to take seriously how do you see that. Well that perception certainly exists in the world and I think that the way we handle it academically speaking is we work to emphasize the other parts of the game. In my basic sports writing course we teach how to cover a game and how to do in advance and follow and all those types of things for about the 1st half of the course but then we get into larger issues we get into covering the business of sports we get into. Legal Matters we get into trying to capture cultural moments and when we do when we do go on the road and do large projects that's an area of emphasis always looking at the cultural lens of sports and I think if you just. Try to get young people interested in that aspect of it it will become more natural as as we go down the road rather than a situation where all you've covered is everything in between the sidelines and then suddenly Collin Kaepernick happens and a sports journalist feels inadequate or unprepared to handle the situation build on that a bit professor as an educator What's your sense of who the sports journalist of the future will be in terms of your students what draws them to it and what might keep them in it the 1st thing that I think draws sports people to sports is sports it is this incredibly wonderful entertaining. Part of the world one of the things that I always say about sports journalism relative to relative to straight news for lack of a better word is that the other sections of the news are typically about failure they're about things that are going badly wrong with our World Sports is the one section where you see human achievement. Routinely people jump higher they achieve more on the basketball court they score more touchdowns they are they they have sports has a natural proclivity to make us feel better about our world but as our other panelists have said it also it also has important issues that we unpack on a daily basis and I think that the future journalists will and people involved in sports like today will love the games but. Very interested in creating a dynamic where they understand that it's more than that and that they should feel comfortable talking about issues that range from you know mental health to physical and sexual abuse too to the underpinning of the business and how money is made in the sport and understanding how that influences decisions that are made or let's talk about Deadspin made news in late October instead of just reporting the news w g.b.h. Boston has a media criticism program but talked about what's been going on with that spin here as part of its coverage the Web site Deadspin melted down this week after new ownership told staffers to focus on sports prompting a bunch of employees to quit it's a turning point for an outlet used to casting a much wider net Laura for those who are unfamiliar with that spin talk about what it is or perhaps was sure so does been was a sports site but it wasn't just a sports site it made its bones reporting on everything from you know Brett Farve sending a picture of his penis to a cheerleader to breaking the story of Mantei tayo as fake dead girlfriend you know those were the big headlines from Dead Spin early on it evolved to cover everything from politics and culture. And race and all of these issues that we've mentioned before and it did so in a very unabashed and direct way pretty river and I think would be fair to say definitely of all of Deadspin as writers and editors Laura quit at the end of October what happened. It had been a long few months of conflict with the private equity owners who bought the company in April so it had been a series of events and disagreements that led to a point in late October when they fired our interim editor in chief our previous editor in chief had effectively been forced out of the company because of this management and then when they made the decision to fire our editor our interim editor in chief and told the rest of us to only write about sports which was when I got everything that spin ever was and stood for we everyone decided on their own whether or not they wanted to work there or not and it turned out that nobody did I want to talk about this more as we continue but what is the value in spins view of reporting on an athlete sending pictures of his goods and services to somebody else I mean it does that why is that valuable Well in this case it was a clear instance of workplace sexual harassment I mean Deadspin was covering the meat to movement in sports before there ever was a need to movement to you know they did it in a very Deadspin way with e.s.p.n. Horn doggery that was a whole tag on Deadspin and it was about different e.s.p.n. Personalities who engaged in sexual harassment I think that Brett Farve story fell along those lines but a very worthwhile stories in sports that deserve reporting how well we get the reporting on those stories we'll discuss that as we continue with Laura Wagner of vice formerly of Deadspin here and given the w.b. War and Professor John Affleck. Penn State University I'm Joshua Johnson and you're listening to one egg from w. Am you and n.p.r. . 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Comes from this station and from at last and whether it's keeping thousands of people on the same page or managing projects from start to finish at last and works to unleash the potential of all types of teams with collaboration software more outlasts Ian dot com and from knew him offering a personalized weight loss program that uses psychology and small goals to change habits with a goal of losing weight and keeping it off for good learn more at noon and 000 m. Dot com This is one and I'm Joshua Johnson We're checking in on the state of sports journalism and some of the challenges that some outlets are facing with Laura Wagner a senior staff writer for Vice formerly of Deadspin. Karen given the executive producer of its program only a game from w.b. You are and n.p.r. And Professor John Affleck and seach of sports journalism at Penn State who's also a former writer and editor for the a.p. We'd love to hear from you especially if you are or were a sports journalist maybe an athlete with thoughts on how you have been covered by sports journalism or just a fan with thoughts about the outlets that serve you well that don't serve you well and whine comment on our Facebook page tweet us at one or e-mail one day at am you dot org Laura a little bit more about Deadspin before we keep going Deadspin is still up the articles of the front page are dated to the beginning of November so the site still kind of exists at least online but it's not really very active you wrote an article for Deadspin about its new parent company Geo media I imagine the management did not like that. You know they did and they tried repeatedly to kill the story while it was still in the reporting process Luckily I had supportive editors who realized that this was a story worth reporting and put their neck out there to get it published what's going on to Deadspin now is the company just completely shut down or what's the state of the company though so Desmond is one of the one of several sites under the Geo media umbrella so the other sites like doesn't talk through job Nick are still publishing. Deadspin is kind of in a limbo I suppose I think you would have to has Jim Spann feller about his plans for and I know they're trying to hire a new dad spent editor in chief though I have no idea what self-respect internal us would go out at the site now Karen what is your sense of the gap that the let's say limbo of Deadspin now leaves now that is functionally gone yeah it's a it's a huge loss I would say for sports journalism as much as when the site started as like this very irreverent silly kind of thing it really morphed into something that was doing very important sports journalism that was really holding sports accountable so you would see investigative stories there that you weren't seeing anywhere else you would hear the stories you know a series that was on Deadspin recently that just really got to me was the

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