#coffeewithLarry, Episode 851, The development of a sports journalist

This is my daily chat with #RunBlogRun viewers and track fans on all things track & field! We go LIVE Monday-Saturday, at 10 Am Central time in the U.S.A. Email me at [email protected]!

Today, February 26, I am speaking to a budding group of journalists at UW Whitewater in a sports writng class.

I am quite excited.

Larry Eder interviewing at adidas NYC Event, 2017, with the Shoe Addicts, photo by Mike Deering /The Shoe Addicts

1. The care and development of a sports writer.

2. The business challenges for independent sports media today.

A Nescafe, Ras Al Khaimah, February 2024, photo by Larry Eder for RunBlogRun

3. The need for sports media, independent sports media.

4. My journey.

Larry Eder in Rio 2016, photo by Brian Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America’s first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: “I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself.” Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, ” I’m no Angel.”

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