Jeff Passan starts breaking news on Instagram, signaling potential sports insider shift away from Twitter
"I think it’s time to start breaking some news on Instagram, too."
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Is journalistic integrity sacrificed when relationship between newsbreakers & sources becomes obvious? Does it even really matter?
Bucks’ Bobby Portis tweets about Woj not reporting his placement in COVID protocols, Woj responds
"Damn Woj ain’t even report me being in health and safety protocol that’s tough."
Mike Tice, the former Vikings’ HC and long-time NFL assistant, appears to have broken the Nick Rolovich firing hours early
Tice tweeted "WSU head football coach Rolovich is out today for his refusal to get the Covid-19 vaccination" at 12:57 p.m. Pacific, more than three hours before a regular media member committed to reporting that Rolovich had been fired.
After Shams Charania reported that Chris Paul “plans to commit” to Team USA, Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Paul declined
It's unusual to see the NBA's two top newsbreakers report different things on the same story. Charania eventually confirmed that Paul has indeed turned the invite down.
Jeff Goodman talks breaking the Coach K retirement news: “My finger is shaking as I’m hitting the send button.”
Goodman's contract with Stadium is up in a couple months, and he's in talks with both them and other outlets.
Mets’ owner Steve Cohen tweeted the news of their game postponement almost an hour ahead of the team announcement
Mets' owner Steve Cohen tweeted the news of the postponement in response to an inquiring fan at 4:36 p.m. Eastern. The team didn't announce that on their own account until 5:30 p.m. Eastern.
ABC punted Marlins-Cubs to ESPN in the middle of the ninth for coverage of President Trump being taken to hospital
The conclusion of Marlins-Cubs wasn't seen on ABC thanks to a special ABC News report.
FS1 addressed Antonio Brown’s release on air and in regular studio programming before ESPN did
Both networks got the news out around the same time, but that was only as a ticker update on ESPN as opposed to Fox addressing it on-screen during studio programming. And that's a limitation of ESPN's pre-taping of studio programming.
Adam Schefter says the Colts knew about Andrew Luck’s retirement before Saturday, contemplated Friday presser
Schefter told Richard Deitsch of The Athletic that the Colts were aware of Luck's intentions earlier in the week, and that they contemplated holding a Friday press conference.
ABC and CBS broke into NCAA games with reports on Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, and many viewers were ticked off
ABC and CBS both went away from college football coverage for reports on the Kavanaugh vote ranging from a minute and a half to two minutes. NBC also broke into their rugby coverage.
Does the idea of an Adrian Wojnarowski-led NBA-only site have legs?
It sounds like Yahoo NBA columnist and news-breaker Adrian Wojnarowski could be the next sports media figure to have...
