Ganim / Patriot-News Win Pulitzer for Sandusky / PSU Coverage

AP has had a staffer in State College for about 10 years now. And I believe Ganim first wrote about this when she was already in Harrisburg. She started doing some work on the story while she was at the CDT, before she moved to Harrisburg.

 

Thanks for the clarifications. I could have sworn the AP used freelancers at least for Penn State men's basketball.

 

Genaro Armas is AP's guy in State College. I don't recall if he does PSU basketball home gamers.

 

I bet the CDT is glad Ganim left...

 

The major editors at the CDT came there from Harrisburg. FWIW.

 

I'd have that person consult with Tommy 2-Tone

 

Not to be a one-note singer, but Harrisburg's owners are the same folks snuffing out daily papers across the country in the name of local, local, local. Would the Patriot-News have been able to spare a reporter who wasn't covering sports to hang around State College for over a year on a slow-developing story? What if the first few articles weren't getting web hits to satisfy the powers that be? Strange new world we're entering here.

 

Prediction: She will be hired by the Washington Post within three months.

 

A nonstarter, because that subject was going to get web hits.

 

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Nice.

And, to answer Piotr Rasputin's (deleted) question: I'd tell my friend to take the money and run. I did when I had the chance to move up, and I don't regret it. I didn't have a Pulitzer Prize and a half-dozen other national journalism awards as bona fides, either. Yes, it's easy to get lost in the shuffle, but a talent reporter such as Ganim can shine anywhere.

I think she'd be crazy to join a sports outfit unless she's passionate about sports, though. She's a crime reporter who stumbled on a sports(-related) story, not a sports reporter who stumbled on a crime story. If she took a job at ESPN, sure, they could give her a position to explore sports-related crimes, but she'd be asked to do a lot more on the sports aspect of things. Her work on Jerry Sandusky has barely scraped that side of the story.

If she wants to get out of newspapers, There are a few avenues she could take. But she seems like an ink-stained wretch in her interviews. The Gray Lady would be the obvious fit, but there are 100-plus newspapers out there with larger circulations than The Patriot-News, and some (but certainly not all) can offer better resources for an intrepid reporter.