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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[An end to sportswriting as we know it?]]></title><link>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/04/07/an-end-to-sportswriting-as-we-know-it/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/04/07/an-end-to-sportswriting-as-we-know-it/</guid><comments>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/04/07/an-end-to-sportswriting-as-we-know-it/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/newspapers/" rel="tag">Newspapers</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/business-of-sports/" rel="tag">Business of Sports</a></p><img alt="" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.bloggingstocks.com/media/2009/04/mwlguide.jpg" align="right" vspace="4" border="1" />The headline in the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123906424665995337.html#mod=todays_us_personal_journal"><em>Wall Street Journal</em></a> (subscription required) couldn't be any more dramatic: "Baseball writers brace for the end."<br /><br />Wire reports and bloggers are rapidly replacing beat writers in all but the most die-hard cities, and financial problems at newspapers are leading to mass layoffs of sportswriters made less essential by technological progress and a generation of sports fans who don't read the newspaper.<br /><br /><p><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/04/07/an-end-to-sportswriting-as-we-know-it/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>An end to sportswriting as we know it?</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/04/07/an-end-to-sportswriting-as-we-know-it/">An end to sportswriting as we know it?</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com">BloggingStocks</a> on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123906424665995337.html#mod=todays_us_personal_journal>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/04/07/an-end-to-sportswriting-as-we-know-it/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/forward/1509910/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/04/07/an-end-to-sportswriting-as-we-know-it/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>Baseball</category><category>featured</category><category>Journalism</category><category>Newspapers</category><category>Sportswriter</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Zac Bissonnette]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:30:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
