This week’s guest on Behind The Lines is Bryan Curtis, who is Editor-at-Large of The Ringer and is host of The Press Box on the Ringer Podcast Network. Bryan is also a Grantland alum, so he talks about what life was like at the old site, how The Ringer became a $200 millionr success story, and what it’s like to work with Bill Simmons.
We also talk of how media coverage of politics has become like sport, and whether that’s a good thing, how he once scandalised a swathe of Her Majesty’s Press with a piece on the London football journalism scene last year, George Lucas, and his days on the trail of America’s infamous Piggyback Bandit.
Bryan’s picks were: The Rocky Road of Pistol Pete, by WC Heinz; Dan Jenkins’ 10 rules for journalists, from You Call It Sports But I See A Jungle Out There; King of the Sports Page, by Rick Reilly
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