STEVE SIPPLE is columnist for Husker Online and the On3 Network. He joined Husker Online in the summer of 2022 after 33 years with the Lincoln Journal Star newspaper.
This conversation is an update, a check-in on various matters related to sports journalism, coverage of sports in Nebraska, especially Huskers, and what’s going on generally in the sports media business. We talk about new football coach Matt Rhule and a bit about the former coach Scott Frost.
[Interview conducted July 2023]
TIMELINE OF TOPICS
Hello
:25
How has the last year been since you left the Journal Star?
1:30
The business of the sports media and newspaper businesses
3:15
The newspaper business and its business model going back 50
years
5:00
Journal Star and World Herald are part of the same company
now after decades of stiff competition
8:30
Describe what you see as sports journalism today [including
references to New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and ESPN]
15:20
Where does sports talk radio fit into the sports journalism conversation?
[includes some talk about Skip Bayless]
22:40
Dealing with the former Huskers coach Scott Frost and the
new coach Matt Rhule
