ESPN just gave us a personal reported... what does this mean?

[thunderraiden]

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcsouth/post/_/id/50077/meet-panthers-reporter-david-newton

 

Today, ESPN.com welcomes David Newton as its Carolina Panthers reporter.

Newton joined ESPN.com in December of 2006 as the lead motorsports writer for its NASCAR coverage. Prior to that he spent 11 seasons covering the Carolina Panthers and NFL for The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C., where he won national and state writing awards. He also has covered Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference football and basketball.

 

It would seem that none of the other teams in our division got a personal reporter. It also says he has covered us in the past for another publication. Does anyone know why we now have two reporters and what this means? Will he essentially be competing with Joe Person as our beat writer?

[teeray]

Every team got one I believe. Newton will be pulling double duty with NASCAR.

[SgtJoo]

ESPN is doing away with divisional reporters and instead is assigning one to each team.

 

He's covering just the Panthers for ESPN.

[csx]

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcsouth/post/_/id/50077/meet-panthers-reporter-david-newton

 

It would seem that none of the other teams in our division got a personal reporter. It also says he has covered us in the past for another publication. Does anyone know why we now have two reporters and what this means? Will he essentially be competing with Joe Person as our beat writer?

Person works for the Observer, not ESPN.

[Floppin]

It means that Yasinskas will no longer write 9 out of 10 articles about the Panthers when he's supposed to be covering the NFC South, and they will instead be assigning reporters to each team. 

[TheRumGone]

i'm sure he will be poo

[thunderraiden]

Person works for the Observer, not ESPN.

 

I know, what I'm asking is if he will be competing with him for info since his job is the panthers now.

[frash.exe]

Lol

Joe Person couldn't compete with a pile of thumb tacks

[The Golden Child]

great.

[rayzor]

I know, what I'm asking is if he will be competing with him for info since his job is the panthers now.

not competition. person asks player/coach a question, gets ignored. asks again a few minutes later, becomes recipient of an eye roll before being ignored again. hears the answer to a question made by @jjones9 (the other beat reporter employed by the observor) or some other guy that isn't perceived by the team to be a moron and then spins it and slaps it on twitter so he can get his precious retweet. the rest of the time he's following his "sources" (ie: twitter feeds from reporters around the league) and then retweeting what he saw.

 

so....will the espn guy be competing with that? i sure hope he's not trying to do that.

 

competing with jones and yas and bill voth and steve reed and sorenson....maybe. person is no competition.

[jtnc]

ESPN is doing away with divisional reporters and instead is assigning one to each team.

He's covering just the Panthers for ESPN.

Sooooo Pat Y is fired?

[CRA]

Good bc Person ain't that good

[SIGCHI222]

If we have to get a guy that does us and NASCAR, why couldn't we get Marty Smith?

[chknwing]

Person works for the Observer, not ESPN.

 

cant be bothered by details