A lot has changed at Bleacher Report since being acquired by Turner 3 years ago. Specifically, the content, while still produced at a mind-numbingly excessive rate, is better. Moreover, Turner cash has allowed for more capable hires (i.e. Mike Freeman), who actually contribute to the media ecosystem with fastidious,…
The following is a blog that contains everything I have investigated on Bleacher Report.
Sometimes, you have to rob to keep your riches. If you're Bleacher Report, "sometimes" translates to approximately 10% of the time.
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On Wednesday night, Mark Cuban went on a Twitter tear, going after Jim Cavan and B/R for a post he published on the website, one of the many outlets for which Cavan writes. More specifically, Cuban's ire was most drawn towards the... um... excessive clickability... of the post's headline, which he referred to as…
Here is a link to a PDF file of a paper written by NYU's David Amodio. In it, Amodio describes "the social neuroscience approach" towards understanding intergroup relations, which encompasses racism, and "then reviews research that has used this approach to advance theories of (a) implicit racial bias and their effects…
On Wednesday, Bleacher Report's official Facebook page was liked by more than 1,000,000 (unfortunately mostly real?) Facebook users.
While the rest of the Internet has gleefully yucked it up on the first of April with all sorts of satire and misdirects over the years, hard-working Bleacher Reporters have been strictly forbidden from taking part in such frivolous activities.
On Monday afternoon, the following email was sent out to all sportswriters on the Yahoo! Contributor Network. It was subsequently forwarded to the BRR by a reader:
Apparently, the BRR's last post had quite an effect on Bleacher Report. While almost all of the site's garbage, inexplicably, still makes its way to Google News, our friends have decided to finally be transparent with their audience!
Before this week, Google was always just... Well, Google. King of kings in a realm that is not fond of regulation.
Awful Announcing published a post on Wednesday documenting the current views of various Bleacher Reporters one year removed from Turner's acquisition of the website.
The BRR has devoted a slew of the blog's space towards exposing the arbitrary and largely hypocritical nature of Bleacher Report's standards for "evaluating" its writing staff. On a website staffed with 1100 writers, 75% of whom are unpaid while the majority of the remaining 25% are desperately trying to achieve…
The views expressed below are not ones authored by me. They also are not views which I fully endorse. The piece below was authored by Daniel Flynn, a Bleacher Report writer whom readers of the BRR have come to know as "The Writer." Since a brief hiatus from posting on Bleacher Report, he has started writing for the…
Over the past year, there has been intense speculation surrounding the high churn rate for Bleacher Report's NBA Lead Writers. I was not going to release this, but I think doing that would be an insult to the blog's readership. I believe the views expressed below are those of Bleacher Report's managing editor from…
The Players (from left to right): Jim Bankoff, Enrico Campitelli, Dave Nemetz, TK Gore, Jon Greenberg, and Amy Nelson as moderator. We clipped the full video in hopes of better conveying the true nature of dialogue between Nemetz and Bankoff.
My latest endeavor has been one that I'm not particularly proud of. Under a fake name, I exchanged 21 emails with Tim Wood, the managing editor of Bleacher Report from March 2010 - August 2013.
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