Media: Jeff Howe leaving Herald as of today

[Tunescribe]

Chad Finn has Howe going there, given his hint. Mystery solved.

Interesting. Will that go head-to-head vs. Bedard's enterprise?

 

[maust]

McAdam is great but listening to him talk is painful.

Yeah, he probably types 5x faster than he talks lol

 

[Jackson 2]

Howe stinks. No big loss for anybody.

JC, you can't be serious. He's honest, ethical, fair-minded and bright. Oh, now I know why you think he stinks...

 

[Ian]

Tough to see Howe go, he's one of the favorites. But smart move on The Athletic's part to grab a well-known name to start them off. Two young guys from San Francisco put that together and they launched in 2016. Obviously, they have plenty of money behind them, which explains why they're expanding so quickly. Best wishes to Jeff. He's definitely one of the good ones.

 

[maust]

Tough to see Howe go, he's one of the favorites. But smart move on The Athletic's part to grab a well-known name to start them off. Two young guys from San Francisco put that together and they launched in 2016. Obviously, they have plenty of money behind them, which explains why they're expanding so quickly. Best wishes to Jeff. He's definitely one of the good ones.

Howe will definitely be the rock star on a staff with solid but unspectacular Shinzawa, adequate King and Jennings and meh [URL='https://twitter.com/jcmccaffrey']McCaffrey. Certainly the Herald will feel his loss big time and so will everyone that appreciated his no bs style. [/URL]

 

[blackglass3]

For the last few years, if Jeff Howe said it I believed it. That guy knows what's up and has incredible sources.

I'm glad he's leaving the Herald, though. Still sore about 42, I guess. Now if Reiss could get a comparable salary from someone not the Globe, Herald, or E!SPN...

 

[Bill Lee]

Can Greg afford three NFL writers (himself, Chris Price, and Howe)?

It makes me (at least) wonder how many mediots can the activities of a given NFL team, even one as successful as the Pats, support?

I think we're about to find out...

I like reading Howe's stuff but have never reached into my wallet to support his writing and don't think I ever will.

[ Aside: I've written here about a research paper early in the Internet boom era that showed how to send payments as little as a fraction of a cent to another entity. It would have made it easy to, for instance, pay a nickel to read an article. Then we could consume just the content we want to consume, and reflect our interests directly in our payments, rather than to have to buy a monthly subscription to support one author's writing on one topic of interest. But the whole thing would undermine the large banks and credit cards, so it never went anywhere ].

The only Boston sports related related outlet worth supporting is PatsFans.COM, says I.

Tough to see Howe go, he's one of the favorites. But smart move on The Athletic's part to grab a well-known name to start them off. Two young guys from San Francisco put that together and they launched in 2016. Obviously, they have plenty of money behind them, which explains why they're expanding so quickly. Best wishes to Jeff. He's definitely one of the good ones.

I hope it works out for all involved, but as the old saying goes, easy come, easy go...

 

[RelocatedPatFan]

Good News.

Maybe I'll be able to read him now that he's off my banned site list.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Howe will definitely be the rock star on a staff with solid but unspectacular Shinzawa, adequate King and Jennings and meh McCaffrey. Certainly the Herald will feel his loss big time and so will everyone that appreciated his no bs style.

All they have left is Guregian. I have nothing against her but Howe is a cut above.

Forges does not count as he is nothing.

 

[Ian]

All they have left is Guregian. I have nothing against her but Howe is a cut above.

Forges does not count as he is nothing.

I wrote about this earlier this morning but Bruce Allen reported last week that Borges was among the recent layoffs there - so he's no longer with them.

 

[RobertWeathers]

I wrote about this earlier but Bruce Allen reported last week that Borges was among the recent layoffs there - so he's no longer with them.

Didn't know that.

Maybe he'll write children's books now.

 

[maust]

I wrote about this earlier this morning but Bruce Allen reported last week that Borges was among the recent layoffs there - so he's no longer with them.

Somehow Borges going out not with a bang but a whimper is a kind of justice all it's own. Anyone that contemplates why a deserving player like Ty Law's (or any other member of the early 200's team) candidacy for the HoF didn't gain more traction shouldn't leave out the consideration that a virulent Pats hater like Borges is Boston's HoF voter. He has been a self important pox on the Boston scene for far too long.

 

[raduray]

I wrote about this earlier this morning but Bruce Allen reported last week that Borges was among the recent layoffs there - so he's no longer with them.

Still listed as a columnist on their website.
Columnists | Boston Herald

 

[Hyped]

All they have left is Guregian. I have nothing against her but Howe is a cut above.

Forges does not count as he is nothing.

Yep, I only read Howe/Guregian articles.....now it's just Karen G. Man, the Globe/Herald are pretty much dead in the water now.... I remember the McDonough Sunday Columns....those were the days.... Not gonna pay for a paywall until they write something I can't find on Profootballtalk.com or Twitter or Patsfans.com or OverTheCap....

 

[A Defiant Goose]

I'm trying to bring myself to care but I just don't give a ****

 

[Bill Lee]

Still listed as a columnist on their website.
Columnists | Boston Herald

They laid off the web admins too...

 

[RobertWeathers]

Yep, I only read Howe/Guregian articles.....now it's just Karen G. Man, the Globe/Herald are pretty much dead in the water now.... I remember the McDonough Sunday Columns....those were the days.... Not gonna pay for a paywall until they write something I can't find on Profootballtalk.com or Twitter or Patsfans.com or OverTheCap....

Agree.

Willie did NFL. Gammons did MLB. Kevin Paul Dupont NHL and Montville/Ryan/Jackie Mac did NBA. MIke Madden too.

Even Borges with "Boxing Notes" was excellent.

 

[raduray]

Tough to see Howe go, he's one of the favorites. But smart move on The Athletic's part to grab a well-known name to start them off. Two young guys from San Francisco put that together and they launched in 2016. Obviously, they have plenty of money behind them, which explains why they're expanding so quickly. Best wishes to Jeff. He's definitely one of the good ones.

Here's an informative article about The Athletic:
Why The Athletic Wants to Pillage Newspapers

 

[Deus Irae]

I'll miss Howe's work, but there's not a chance in hell that I'm going to be signing up for that site.

 

[Ian]

Here's an informative article about The Athletic:
Why The Athletic Wants to Pillage Newspapers

Wow - what a couple of arrogant &$%^&, they even look like it:


"We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing," Alex Mather, a co-founder of The Athletic said in an interview in San Francisco. "We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them."

I won't even get into what they did to the guy in Pittsburgh that Greg Bedard partnered with...or the other comments. I hadn't seen this previously and sort of wish I hadn't seen it now.

His backpedaled pretty quickly after the fact:



Yeah...I love Jeff, but personally, it's going to be tough to part with money to support guys who conduct themselves this way.