Giants Football Reporter Becomes Latest Casualty Of Media Convergence

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Published: August 27, 2009

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... the sports reporting arena in the last decade saw the writing on the wall.  Others, who worked in the print media were slow to adapt to the transition of media forms from hard copy to electronic.

I'm not saying Ernie was one of them. He did have a blog and he did use Twitter. His employer, The Journal News - a fixture in the Lower Hudson Valley, is experiencing what many print-centric news providers (newspapers) are these days: dwindling circulation, reduced advertising revenue and massive layoffs.

Ernie was let go by the Journal News this week. That means he won't be at Giants Stadium this year and he won't be providing that veteran insight that we have all come to know and love.

Perhaps he will catch on somewhere else.  Maybe some of these excessed sportswriters can work for Bleacher Report in some capacity.  Then again, maybe its time for sports journalism to keep moving forward.

That's too bad  - for everyone.

As one of the...

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