Number Of Baseball Writers Dropping Amid Newspaper Cutbacks
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Jolly Says N.Y. Times Has
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Baseball's press corps, once the "most powerful in American sports, is fading," according to Adams & Marchman of the WALL STREET JOURNAL. As newspapers "cut budgets and payrolls the press boxes at major league ballparks are becoming increasingly lonely places, signaling a future when some games may be chronicled only by wire services, house organs and Web writers watching the games on television." Baseball Writers Association of America Secretary Jack O'Connell: "I certainly see the dark clouds." N.Y. Times Sports Editor Tom Jolly said that it costs his newspaper "about $6,500 a month during the regular season to have a reporter follow [a] team on the road." Adding spring training and a trip to the playoffs, one baseball reporter "costs the paper more than $50,000 per season on top of his or her salary." Jolly said that his paper "now sends only one person on certain road trips that in the past would have called for two." Adams & Marchman note the Washington Post beginning this season will "rely on the Baltimore Sun to cover the Orioles, while the Sun will leave its Nationals coverage to the Post." The Hartford Courant also has "quit sending a reporter on the road with the Red Sox, and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette has cut its Red Sox road presence to between 35-40 games from 70 last year." But while the "cash-strapped Boston Herald has cut its city desk by more than half in the past five years," former Herald baseball writer Tony Massarotti said that the newspaper "tinkering with Red Sox coverage 'was never really an option'" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 4/7).
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