Adam Schefter's biggest accomplishment

[Mizzougrad96]

I would probably take Glazer over Schefter, but it's close. Both do a great job.

I'm sure knowing Albom helped Schefter, but I give Schefter credit for making that happen. I'm guessing Schefter introduced himself to Albom at a Michigan game and then offered her services to him or someone at the Freep recommended Schefter as someone who would be good to help with research for Albom's books...

I did research for a well-known writer (not as well-known as Albom) while I was in college and I would be naive to think it didn't help me get an internship or my first job.

It's that way for a lot of people.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

I would probably take Glazer over Schefter, but it's close. Both do a great job.

I'm sure knowing Albom helped Schefter, but I give Schefter credit for making that happen. I'm guessing Schefter introduced himself to Albom at a Michigan game and then offered her services to him or someone at the Freep recommended Schefter as someone who would be good to help with research for Albom's books...

I did research for a well-known writer (not as well-known as Albom) while I was in college and I would be naive to think it didn't help me get an internship or my first job.

It's that way for a lot of people.

So did I. I was delighted to do it, dug up a lot of stuff, and found about a dozen bad typos in the final draft which would have been bad news had no one caught them . . .

The writer in question gave me a fantastic push in the dedication for that book. Always grateful.

 

[Kid Presentable]

He used to follow The Dwarf around at Michigan football games -- always bearing right and a pace behind -- chewing on a pen and drooling, eating free hot dogs at the Michigan Daily at a hockey game he was a spectator at ... that's the Adam Schefter (and Rich Eisen for that matter) I always think of...
Had he not done research into Albom's book on Bo, he would be writing somewhere.
But because he his the right spot at the right time (when Albom was respected and actually worked) "As a research assistant to Mitch Albom at the Detroit Free Press, Schefter did news updates from campus for the paper. Yet, despite all of his experience and persistence, not a single newspaper would hire him. "
Poor guy.

Yeah, then he got his Masters at Northwestern and was covering the Broncos about a year later.

I get why people don't like Schefter. The way he left the Rocky Mountain News for The Denver Post was one of the worst "fork yous" I've ever heard about in this business and he did it to one of the true good guy sports editors (Forbis) and if memory serves, the RMN staff found out Schefter had left when they read about it in The Post that morning. I think Forbis was in Atlanta at the Olympics when it happened.

A lot of the criticism of Schefter is more than warranted. He was always nice to me, but I saw him be a complete deck to a lot of people for no reason whatsoever. But during my time as a sports writer, I never met a writer who worked harder than Schefter. It's one thing to be like that early in your career, but he's kept that pace for 20+ years, which is pretty amazing.

Story?

 

[WildBillyCrazyCat]

Agree with what Mizzou said.

Adam always treated me well enough. I can understand how he rubbed many people -- probably most people -- the wrong way.

But he's gotten where he is because he out-works everyone. Can't dispute that. And way before social media existed, he also excelled at marketing himself well.