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No one said that breaking into the highly competitive sports media industry was easy. But, as Steph Rogers reports, if there’s anything that the panelists at Tuesday night’s Fast Break event could agree makes for successful careers, it’s being talented, getting lucky, and—surprisingly—being a nice person.
Malcolm Kelly gives a preview of a panel on sports journalism taking place at this weekend's CAJ Conference that will look at the revenue sports produces and the audience figures it draws that are, he says, the envy of more "serious" journalists.
Brian Burke is the general manager of one of the most popular teams in Canada and the NHL but the media aren’t popular with him: he has referred to reporters as “scumbags,” “maggots,” and “idiots”. But after his recent snub towards Hockey Night in Canada, Ian Jacobs decided to take a closer look at this antagonistic relationship.The ICFJ said there are an estimated 25,000 reporters expected to descend on Beijing for the games.
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