Why did Jay Mariotti leaving the Chicago Sun-Times?
(He has a point, although I don’t necessarily see the shift to the Web as a bad thing per se.) Article from Editor and Publisher about his departure: Star Sports Columnist Mariotti Suddenly Quits ‘Chicago Sun-Times’ By E&P Staff Published: August 27, 2008 9:55 AM ET CHICAGO Just two months after the Chicago Sun-Times ballyhooed his three-year contract extension, Chicago Sun-Times star sports columnist Jay Mariotti has quit. The sudden resignation is the latest blow to the personality-driven tabloid. Its most famous writer, film critic Roger Ebert, has been disabled by health problems for the past three years, and its best-known political columnist, Robert Novak, has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Mariotti, one of just two sportswriters the Sun-Times sent to the Beijing Olympics, told Jim Kirk of the rival Chicago Tribune that he had concluded while in China there was no future in newspapers. Sportswriting has become “entirely a Web site business. There were not a lot of new
