ProJo Red Sox writer moving to Boston Herald/ESPN.com/WEEI

"Sources have confirmed to Shots that (Sean) McAdam has been looking for new employment after the ProJo (Providence Journal) squashed McAdam’s outside work at WEEI 850 AM and ESPN.com over the summer. At least one upper management ProJoer, Shots is told by industry sources,

• found fault in McAdam being on-air at WEEI during the afternoon drive on baseball’s trade deadline day. That person - not directly associated with the sports department - evidently had a problem with where McAdam’s allegiance lied and subsequently put the kibosh on McAdam’s outside gigs (the very same gigs that provided exposure for the buzzless, sagging Belo Corp. property).

(McAdam’s last ESPN.com column appeared in early August and that coincided with his last WEEI appearance. There has also been a dearth of McAdam at other outside media outlets in the area, although he did remain a guest at Comcast SportsNet.)

• In fact, the day after the trade deadline, an ESPN ticker item

• was giving credit to the ProJo (thanks to McAdam) for information about veteran players meeting with Sox management over the Manny situation. The amount of

• traffic that kind of mention (and others) can generate for a website is substantial. It’s the ProJo’s fault for not maximizing McAdam - not McAdam’s fault for earning
• some extra income
• the same way most of his competitors do....

The Herald, Shots has been informed, has no problem with McAdam’s WEEI work or his contributions to ESPN.com"....via Poynter.org/Romenesko

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