Tyrese Haliburton Goes Full Reggie Miller. Plus: A Final Farewell to ‘Around the Horn.’
Hello, media consumers! Bryan and Joel are back on this Press Box Thursday Edition to discuss peak sports media beef (2:00), Reggie Miller’s unique perspective on the Eastern Conference finals and Tyrese Haliburton’s choke sign (17:00), and Draymond Green being added to ‘Inside the NBA’ for the ECF (23:00). Then, they discuss another wave of pieces chronicling the end of ESPN’s ‘Around the Horn’ and what it says about ESPN’s strategy (28:00). Finally, they discuss the latest in AI nightmares trickling into the journalism and media world (44:00).
Hosts: Bryan Curtis and Joel D. Anderson
Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner
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How Sports Ate TV. Plus: Journalism’s Triumphant Return!
Hello, media consumers! On this Press Box Monday edition, Bryan and David discuss Journalism, the official horse of The Press Box, winning the Preakness (1:00) before discussing the end of TNT’s era of broadcasting the NBA and what they’ll miss most about it (6:00). Then, they discuss the career of legendary WWE announcer Jim Ross after learning about his colon cancer diagnosis (18:00) before digging into some recently published data about TV ratings and the ways in which sports have completely consumed them (23:00).
Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week, Media Piss Test, and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline.
Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker
Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner
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The Tell-All Book Haunting Washington. Plus: Can Podcasts Become the New Magazines?
Hello, media consumers! This week, Bryan and Joel go to J-School to discuss the reactions to and coverage of the Jayson Tatum injury (1:00). Then, they digest the various news ripples that have come from excerpts of ‘Original Sin,’ Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s book about Joe Biden’s decision to run for reelection (10:00). Next, they react to a recent report on Pablo Torre Finds Out about Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson, and they assess whether or not this kind of reporting is replacing magazine journalism of old (35:00). Finally, they talk about the evolution of newsroom etiquette (53:00) and how the media reacted to the news of Pete Rose’s baseball ban being posthumously lifted (1:02:00).
Hosts: Bryan Curtis and Joel D. Anderson
Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner
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An American Pope Media Frenzy, Jayson Tatum Take-a-Palooza, and the Reemergence of Joe Biden
Hello, media consumers! Bryan and David are back on this Monday edition to talk about the election of a new Pope and the media frenzy it spawned (1:00), the week of Jayson Tatum takes (8:00), NBC’s plans for the future of its basketball coverage, including Michael Jordan (17:00), and new media ventures being unable to come up with compelling names for their products (24:00). Then, they’re joined by Politico’s Adam Wren to talk about the reemergence of Joe Biden in the media ahead of a book that’s about to be released about him (38:00). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week, and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline.
Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker
Guest: Adam Wren
Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner
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25 for 25: Brian Windhorst on the Future of NBA Reporting
Hello media consumers! This week, please enjoy a little J-School (1:00) before Bryan and Joel are joined by ESPN basketball reporter Brian Windhorst to talk about his path to ESPN and whether it’s replicable, the place good reporting has in our modern media ecosystem, the dreaded aggregators, Gregg Popovich stories, and what direction he sees the future of basketball reporting heading in (26:00).
Hosts: Bryan Curtis and Joel D. Anderson
Guest: Brian Windhorst
Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner
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