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Breer pulls back curtain on working for NFL Network
Posted by Mike Florio on April 23, 2016, 12:51 PM EDT
Sports leagues and sports teams now commonly hire reporters to cover their own operations. Which raises an obvious question: How can a reporter behave independently when the reporter necessarily isn’t?
Appearing Friday on 98.5 The Sports Hub’s Toucher & Rich show, NFL Network’s Albert Breer pulled back the curtain on working directly for a sports league.
“I’ve been there five-and-a-half years and it’s a very limiting place in a lot of different ways,” said Breer, who is leaving NFL Network to join TheMMQB.com. “The rules were one way when I got there, and they’re very, very different now. And there are a lot of stories that I haven’t been able to do that I will be able to do now. . . .
“I think when I got there, there was very clearly a wall between us and the league. It was one of the first questions I asked when I left the [Boston] Globe is, ‘Am I going to be able to do the job the way that I did at the Globe?’ And the people that were there at the time said, ‘Absolutely.’ And that held true for a little while. That wall’s now gone and it’s a big reason why, probably two, three months ago, I just decided we’re going to stop talking to them and we’re going to find somewhere else to go. I’m glad I found a really, really, really good place to go and hopefully we can do some real good stories there.”
read more: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/04/23/breer-pulls-back-curtain-on-working-for-nfl-network/
Posted by Mike Florio on April 23, 2016, 12:51 PM EDT
Sports leagues and sports teams now commonly hire reporters to cover their own operations. Which raises an obvious question: How can a reporter behave independently when the reporter necessarily isn’t?
Appearing Friday on 98.5 The Sports Hub’s Toucher & Rich show, NFL Network’s Albert Breer pulled back the curtain on working directly for a sports league.
“I’ve been there five-and-a-half years and it’s a very limiting place in a lot of different ways,” said Breer, who is leaving NFL Network to join TheMMQB.com. “The rules were one way when I got there, and they’re very, very different now. And there are a lot of stories that I haven’t been able to do that I will be able to do now. . . .
“I think when I got there, there was very clearly a wall between us and the league. It was one of the first questions I asked when I left the [Boston] Globe is, ‘Am I going to be able to do the job the way that I did at the Globe?’ And the people that were there at the time said, ‘Absolutely.’ And that held true for a little while. That wall’s now gone and it’s a big reason why, probably two, three months ago, I just decided we’re going to stop talking to them and we’re going to find somewhere else to go. I’m glad I found a really, really, really good place to go and hopefully we can do some real good stories there.”
read more: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/04/23/breer-pulls-back-curtain-on-working-for-nfl-network/
