Joe Person Getting Some Help at the Observer

[MGH1989]

so far so good, at least he can spell.

[dksmith17]

WTF u talking about?

Looks like a loss to me.

Did not see the if. My apologies.

[dksmith17]

I really couldn't care less about breaking stories on Twitter and that seems like where nearly all the criticism of him comes from. I view him as a journalist so if he puts together good articles then he is doing his job. He's paid to put things in the paper not tweet it outside of the scope of the paper.

However, he doesn't do that either. He doesn't seem to do much of anything so why does he need a helper?

Its all about twitter in NFL media anymore and Panthers beat twitter presence was big time lacking since Gantt left.

Seems to me you have to be active, professional, and personable. Out of the NC sports media scene, I don't see a better fit.

[csx]

Several years ago we had Yasinskas, Gantt, and Reed all covering locally. Gantt had a blog on Rock Hill's website that I frequented before he took it all to Twitter. People would go to the paper's sites to get the latest info.

It just makes me wonder if giving all your info away takes away from your value to the newspaper leading to the demise of the sports departments. Just a thought...I know it's much more complicated than that and newspapers in general are hurting due to losing the revenue they once got from classifieds and advertising in general.

[dksmith17]

Several years ago we had Yasinskas, Gantt, and Reed all covering locally. Gantt had a blog on Rock Hill's website that I frequented before he took it all to Twitter. People would go to the paper's sights to get the latest info.

It just makes me wonder if giving all your info away takes away from your value to the newspaper leading to the demise of the sports departments. Just a thought...I know it's much more complicated than that and newspapers in general are hurting due to losing the revenue they once got from classifieds and advertising in general.

Its transitional IMO. Once the revenue streams get figured out by the bigwigs things will fall in place for the media guys. Free media won't last.

I'm guessing it will be some version of the merging of appletv/twitter/facebook/googletv/NBC/ABC etc that will somehow incorporate twitter/facebook follower based advertisement.

[Floppin]

People using adblock programs are forcing many media outlets to go to a premium service.

[dksmith17]

People using adblock programs are forcing many media outlets to go to a premium service.

And then we see NBC shutdown the olympics to the general public. The adblockers/hackers are the exception not the rule.

[TheGreatestOfAllTimeCam]

If JJ was smart he would get the observer to give him his own blog space and run it like PFT, post about EVERYTHING inside and out Panthers related. Work circles around Person.

That's IF he were smart and wanted to get ahead