By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
As if to show just how serious they are about being an Internet player, WEEI.com today (8/18/08) announces the addition of Deadspin founder, Will Leitch, to its rapidly expanding line-up of writers. Leitch - tabbed as “The Outsider” - will write twice-monthly (every other Wednesday) for the site and [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
In yet another stunning blow to the battered Boston Herald sports section, general columnist and Red Sox specialist, Tony Massarotti is leaving One Herald Square, crossing over Route 93, will land smack dab on Joe Sullivan’s sports staff at the Boston Globe/Boston.com. Adam Reilly at the Phoenix had the inter-Globe [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
With a week to digest the rather compelling WEEI.com news that Shots led the way on late last week, it’s clearly time for a Winners and Losers edition of “As the Boston Sports Media Market Turns”:
WINNER
Glenn Ordway
The biggest - in every sense - winner is none other than [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
In an unprecedented move for the Boston market, Boston Herald Red Sox reporter Rob Bradford is leaving the paper and will head up the burgeoning dot-com staff at the soon-to-be re-launched and re-focused WEEI.com, several sources have confirmed to Scott’s Shots.
WEEI.com’s Vice President/General Manager Tim Murphy would only say to [...]

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