Dustup over new Astros beat writer for Chron.com

[Vombatus]

Since when did Chron.com have beats. I thought it was a low rent clickbait site

They're covering the cheating Astros. Lowering standards for all involved.

 

[exmediahack]

I just learned that. Thanks, 529!

She definitely could use a mentor to help guide her through the thought process of doing dumb ship.

Went into the rabbit hole and looked her up on LinkedIn. Since getting her undergrad degree in June 2017, she is starting her 6th job, plus had grad school in there, too.

Her time at those previous 5 jobs: 13 months, 13 months, 10 months (leaving in October as a beat writer for a P5 football team), 23 months and 4 months.

Couple her average staying time of 12-ish months per job, plus her tendency to say/post stupid ship and not learn from the past, I've gotta think it will cost her in the future.

Probably not too much.

What I've learned since moving into management - involuntarily - six months ago.

The media business is full of SO many bad managers. Especially managers who want to hire "unique".

She'll always have a suitor in this field.

 

[HanSenSE]

I also learned this week that the Houston Chronicle and Chron (which hired Leah) are two completely different publications.

Was wondering, because I knew Matt Kawahara fled covering the A's for the SF Chronicle for the Stros.

 

[wheels89]

This could probably go under jobs or here, but think this is the better one ...

Apparently the Chron hired a new Astros beat writer, a young woman named Leah Vann. Seems talented, maybe a little bit of a job-jumper, but whatever.

Anyway, she's hired, then it comes out that she called Altuve a cheater in the aftermath of 2017's ugliness. Astros fans get wind of it, go nuts on her, she says she received death threats, says she contemplated suicide, then deactivates her social media and says she will resurrect it when she starts on the job.

This has a couple of screenshots with a little bit of her detail before halting her Twitter/X.

https://x.com/HouCounterplot/status/1735682042426228765?s=20

This makes me wonder what the SAS reference was in regards to, but this in itself is an interesting tale.

On the scale of Stephen A. "rants", this doesn't even get into the parking lot of the stadium.

 

[garrow]

Chron, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good or bad. Why we fought, or why we tweeted. No, all that matters is that one stood against many. That's what important! Pulitzers please you Chron. So grant me one request: grant me job security. And if you do not listen, then the hell with you!

 

[Baron Scicluna]

It'll be real interesting the first time she tries to interview Altuve.

 

[Twirling Time]

By now Altuve has undoubtedly been made aware of her critical Xeet, but in a vacuum it would've faded into the noise. I'm guessing one clear-the-air meeting and it'll all be good.

 

[SixToe]

Chron sounds like a respiratory disease. But it's far better than Tronc, which was a bowel discharge.

 

[exmediahack]

Thankful there was no Twitter when I was in my 20s and covering sports.

25-year-old me would have Pished off everyone I covered.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Hell yes, Ex.

I would have been literally un-hireable then because of what my social media footprint would have looked like.

 

[exmediahack]

I'm not edgy anymore on social media. Once I saw too many people get fired or suspended from tweets, I realized posting on Twitter has very little upside and is a resignation letter waiting to happen.

A couple years ago, I had an interview for an anchor job in a market that I had taken delight in going after the fan base for years.

Took about a half hour to take out anything with my handle and "Vols" "Volunteers" "Tennessee" "Butch" "Dooley" and "frauds".

 

[Liut]

Many of these responses are reminders of what I've recently read in new books by Martin Baron and Kat Timpf.