Life As a Beat Writer
Ross Siler of the Salt Lake Tribune is documenting what life is like on a daily basis for an NBA beat writer. An entertaining read.
- Absence of Evidence (163)
- Gangster Entertainment (24)
- The Links (780)
- The Peoples Champ (626)
- Mutoni’s Spot (160)
- 3 For All (175)
- Farmer Jones’s Roundball Almanac (94)
- Fear of a Black Editor (59)
- This is Why it’s Hott (49)
- Undeclared (72)
- Far Post (25)
- School Daze (69)
- Etan Thomas (11)
- Game Notes (216)
- Continuing Ed (49)
- Mr. Fantasy (42)
- Too Real for the League (149)
- Hoop Reality (28)
- The Watcher (193)
- Bears Come Up To This Window (24)
- The Post Up (118)
- Rookie Blogs (3)
- The Commish (37)
- Quotemonger (15)
- Bourgeois (2)
- The Notorious D.N.P. (6)
- Sole Searching (8)
- Draft 365 (6)
- Cub Scouts (6)
- Line of the Night (3)
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11 Responses to “Life As a Beat Writer”
Feb.27 at 3:07 pm
Myles Brown says:
Saw him last night before the game talking to Jason Hart. Hart told him that the Wolves are competitive team not to be slept on.
Feb.27 at 3:18 pm
TADOne says:
Guess he didn’t get that message to the rest of the team.
Feb.27 at 3:18 pm
Ben Osborne says:
Being a newspaper nerd, I found that pretty entertaining.
Feb.27 at 3:37 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
You can’t upscale Subway.
Feb.27 at 4:58 pm
Khalid Salaam says:
the beat writer life is a tough one
Feb.27 at 4:59 pm
Holly MacKenzie says:
I’m about to look at this now, but at first glance, I thought it said “Life as a Wife Beater”. Weird.
Feb.27 at 6:30 pm
TADOne says:
Holly with the joke of the day.
Feb.27 at 7:41 pm
Kevin says:
^ lol. but yea, that was a really informative and interesting read.. i knew it was difficult, but thats nuts - i love basketball and would write for free, but for the travel/lifestyle i hope the pay’s decent at least.
Feb.27 at 8:12 pm
david k. says:
thanks for the link. it was a great read.
btw: how does writing for the magazine differ from a newspaper gig such as that?
Feb.27 at 8:22 pm
Reggie Evans says:
Dyslexia is no joke.
Feb.28 at 1:02 pm
Cub Buenning says:
Ross used to cover the Lakers for one of the LA dailys, i have always enjoyed his stuff.
Too bad he had to move to the SLC…..
there is some rockymountain bias.