- Sportsjournalists.com
Sportsjournalists.com is an
Internet forum frequented by journalists who cover sports. In 2006, it was named one of the best non-corporate sports web sites by "Sports Illustrated". [ [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/richard_deitsch/12/26/media.circus/1.html SI.com - Writers - 2006 Media Awards (cont.) - Wednesday December 27, 2006 6:07PM ] ] The forum has been directly involved in several sports journalism controversies:*
Michael Gee , a former columnist for the "Boston Herald ", was fired from a teaching job atBoston University after describing one of his students on Sportsjournalists.com as "incredibly hot" [Zezima, K: " [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E1DB143CF933A15754C0A9639C8B63 Teacher Fired Over Web Posting About Student] ", page 18. The New York Times, July 20, 2005]
*Wallace Matthews , a columnist for the "New York Post ", announced his resignation from that newspaper on Sportsjournalists.com and criticized the newspaper for a gossip item many interpreted to claim thatMike Piazza was gay [Pappu, S: "Wally's World: Ex-Post Sports Guy Explains Fiery Exit", page 6. The New York Observer, June 3, 2002]
*Sportsjournalists.com was first to report on October 10, 2006, thatWoody Paige would leave the TV show "Cold Pizza " and return to the "Denver Post " as a columnist. At that time, Woody Paige denied that he would be leaving "Cold Pizza ". On November 2, it was announced that Woody Paige would return to the "Denver Post ". [Roberts, M: " [http://www.westword.com/Issues/2006-11-30/news/message.html Knock on Woody] ". Denver Westworld, November 30, 2006]Sportsjournalists.com was briefly shut down in
2002 . [ [http://www.poynter.org/dg.lts/id.45/aid.6608/column.htm Poynter Online - Romenesko ] ] Breaking sports news and general news items are often posted on Sportsjournalists.com before they are reported in the media. [ [http://www.imprintmagazine.org/2005/09/28/meeting-the-press/ Meet the (sports) press — iMPrint Magazine — College News, Sports, Entertainment Archive ] ]Several times, journalists have created accounts simply to refute false, anonymous posts at the site. Some posters also were fooled by erroneous leaks just before the release of the Mitchell Report. As a result, several dozen players were falsely accused of being named in the report.
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