Newsday‘s Sports Page Plays Too Nice for Some Reporters
The sports page at Long Island daily Newsday has lately undergone a change in editorial direction. While the teams the paper covers may appreciate the gentler treatment, several reporters are less than pleased with the new restraint, reports the New York Observer.
Editors at Newsday are instructing writers to avoid harsh tones and name-calling. Some stories have been killed because they don’t match up to the new guidelines, and columnist Wallace Matthews left the paper for ESPN New York as conflicts over his writing escalated.
One further wrinkle in the editorial tussle: James and Charles Dolan, managers at Newsday parent Cablevision, own the Knicks and the Rangers.
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