Tribune Company consolidates national sports beats

Editor & Publisher, NEW YORK: "Tribune Co. is reportedly in the midst of consolidating sports coverage on national beats across its daily newspapers, much the way it has in Washington bureau reporting, according to Crain's Chicago Business....

• It notes that the Chicago Tribune's Phil Rogers, who covers baseball, and Shannon Ryan, on national college basketball, will continue on their beats.
• But Tribune national NFL and college football writers will give up those beats to two staffers at the Los Angeles Times.

"The L.A. Times didn't get everything they wanted, and we didn't get everything we wanted," Kellams said in the story. "We had to make some tough decisions.""...

• Reference: "Tribune Co. Consolidating National Sports Beats," by Joe Strupp, via Poynter.org/Romenesko

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