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Sporting News/AOL Fanhouse

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by mediaguy, Jan 13, 2011.

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  1. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    It was an honor and pleasure having you - thanks much for everything you did.
    (I don't owe you any money, do I? Have to get those accounts cleared today)
     
    Moderator1, Feb 28, 2011
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  2. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Moddy said the unemployment issues depend on what state the person lives in. The person I talked to lives in a different state than Moddy and while AOL will not fight his unemployment claim, it's not guaranteed.

    Four columnists have been hired. One, apparently, has already started writing for TSN. I can't speak for the other three.
     
    Mizzougrad96, Feb 28, 2011
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  3. vivbernstein

    vivbernstein Member

    Ledger's clear, Moddy!

     
    vivbernstein, Feb 28, 2011
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  4. WildBillyCrazyCat

    WildBillyCrazyCat Member

    What surprises me about Fanhouse over the past two months is that the quality of the product never seemed to suffer despite the imminent loss of jobs.

    When my outfit closed a few years back, people stopped giving a crap the day the announcement was made. The product, over the final weeks, was in shambles. So kudos to all of you at Fanhouse for keeping it together.
     
    WildBillyCrazyCat, Feb 28, 2011
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  5. mediaguy

    mediaguy Well-Known Member

    Lots of Fanhouse writers tweeting goodbyes today. Just a bad deal all around.
     
    mediaguy, Feb 28, 2011
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  6. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    Yeah. It kind of sucks. To WBCC's point above, he's right. And it's because we care about each other and felt we owed to each other to go out strong. It's a bond I hope to replicate in my new job. It sounds corny unless you've been there but this has been an amazingly tight group.
     
    Moderator1, Feb 28, 2011
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  7. Piotr Rasputin

    Piotr Rasputin New Member

    As Nancy gay and AJ Perez tweeted:

    RIP, FanHouse.

    http://aol.sportingnews.com/fanhouse
     
    Piotr Rasputin, Mar 1, 2011
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  8. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    Sad to see a good site go down that way. It just figures that something good would be dismantled. Can't have that in this day and age!
     
    Flying Headbutt, Mar 1, 2011
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  9. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Congrats to Lisa Olson, David Whitley, Greg Couch and David Steele.

    Apparently the reason the announcement wasn't made was because another columnist dropped out at the last minute because they could not agree on salary.

    http://aol.sportingnews.com/fanhouse
     
    Mizzougrad96, Mar 1, 2011
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  10. 21

    21 Well-Known Member

    What determined the order of those names on the home page? Couch, Steele, Olson, Whitley. Why not alphabetical?
     
    21, Mar 1, 2011
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  11. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    They really should have added Pedro Gomez to round things out.
     
    Boom_70, Mar 1, 2011
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  12. Mystery Meat II

    Mystery Meat II Well-Known Member

    Similar experience with my last newspaper job. When they shut us down at the end of 2008, they notified us with six weeks to go. There might have been a couple of times where people let their quality control slip, and I know I was distracted on some edit jobs thinking about my impending unemployment, but the final products were every bit as good as the ones we published when we were on firmer ground. A lot of that owes, as in your case, to our being very close as a group. Of my core of best friends, three worked at the paper, and one of their boyfriends is the fourth. And, as with FanHouse, we had that startup zeal, which leads to a greater sense of ownership of the product.
     
    Mystery Meat II, Mar 1, 2011
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