Media, Law & Policy

Newhouse School’s ‘Sports Matters’ Symposium Will Examine Current Issues in Sports Media

Wednesday, February 15, 2017, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Sports Matters 2017 logoThe Newhouse Sports Media Center will host Sports Matters, a daylong symposium examining current issues in sports media, on Wednesday, Feb. 22, in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. Follow on Twitter at #SportsMatters.

John Nicholson, professor of practice in broadcast and digital journalism and director of the Newhouse Sports Media Center, will open the event at 9 a.m. Newhouse Dean Lorraine Branham will offer welcoming remarks.

The event will include three panel discussions:

9:15 a.m.: “Sports as News/How do we prepare for when sports rises to the level of news?”

Panelists:

  • Jason Dumas ’11 – sports director, WHAG-TV, Hagerstown, Md.
  • Patti Kleinman-Fallick ’78 – senior director, broadcast operations, U.S. Tennis Association
  • Erika Wachter ’12 – sports reporter, Fox 5 New York/former field hockey player, Syracuse University
  • John Wildhack ’80 – director of athletics, Syracuse University/former ESPN executive
  • Simon Perez, assistant professor of broadcast and digital journalism at the Newhouse School, will moderate.

1 p.m.: “Taking a Knee—Then What?/How media cover and follow up on societal issues in sports”

Panelists:

  • Ahmed Fareed ’02 – sports anchor, Comcast Sportsnet Bay Area
  • Dale Hansen – sports director, WFAA-TV Dallas-Ft. Worth
  • Karl Ravech – host, ESPN
  • William C. Rhoden – retired columnist, The New York Times
  • Claire Smith – coordinating editor, Universal News Group, ESPN/first female recipient of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for baseball journalism
  • Joel Kaplan, associate dean for professional graduate studies at the Newhouse School, will moderate.

3 p.m.: “Sports Reporting and Social Media: The good, the bad and the ugly/How do we use social media in our sports reporting? How should we?”

Panelists:

  • Cary Chow – host/anchor/reporter, ESPN and ESPN.com
  • Kimberley A. Martin G’06 – New York Jets beat writer, Newsday
  • Dave McMenamin ’05 – Cleveland Cavaliers beat writer, ESPN.com
  • Sarina Morales ’08 – morning host, “SportsCenter,” ESPN
  • Anne Osborne, associate professor of communications at the Newhouse School, will moderate.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Nicholson at 315.443.4065 or jsnich01@syr.edu.