EVAN BLAND Omaha World Herald, 2022 Nebraska Sports Writer of the Year
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EVAN BLAND
Covers Nebraska football and baseball for the Omaha World Herald. He is the 2022 Nebraska sports writer of the year, an honor he shares with fellow World Herald reporter Stu Pospisil. Evan talks about the process of covering sports in Nebraska, including five years of the Scott Frost Era, which started with a lot of promise and ended in the coach's firing.
SHOW NOTES:
00:00 opening remarks about the award and his position and responsibilities
14:00 the challenges of journalism and its delivery
25:30 covering Scott Frost (good honest comments about Frost’s tenure, including the fact Evan thinks Frost didn’t really enjoy the job here)
38:30 the value of good source (coach)/reporter relationship
46:45 the joys of the job
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