OT: Canzano named nation's top sprts columnist by Society of Professional Journalists

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http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/or...f/2010/05/john_canzano_named_nations_bes.html

Sports columnist John Canzano won first place in the 2009 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism, announced Monday.

Canzano won for a portfolio of five entries, which included columns on the life and death of Katie Shearer, the punch thrown by LeGarrette Blount and the imprisoned father of the Rodgers brothers, stars on the Oregon State University football team.

The Oregonian's Jack Ohman also won for a selection of his Sunday cartoons, which in contrast to his single-panel daily cartoons have multiple panels and a narrative storyline.

The awards, in the larger newspaper category, will be presented Oct. 2 during the 2010 convention of the sponsoring organization, the Society of Professional Journalists.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

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Ha! bow down, haters.

 

[BGrantFan]

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Congrats to Canzano. As a daily subscriber to the Oregonian, I feel lucky to be able to read his columns, considering the dreck I've had to read in other markets.

Keep up the good work, John!

 

[ABM]

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4 of 5 of those entries appear to be non-sports-related?

 

[BGrantFan]

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4 of 5 of those entries appear to be non-sports-related?

They are all sports related.

 

[tlongII]

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4 of 5 of those entries appear to be non-sports-related?

Really? Which ones?

 

[<-=*PdX*=->]

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Really? Which ones?

Yeah, enlighten us.

 

[oldmangrouch]

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4 of 5 of those entries appear to be non-sports-related?

Ding ding ding! We have a winner.

Gossip and soap-opera. Wild speculation larded with pop psychology and puritanical hornswoggle.

 

[Minstrel]

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At best, the one about the punch is sports-related. The others are human interest stories, IMO.

 

[BGrantFan]

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At best, the one about the punch is sports-related. The others are human interest stories, IMO.

They are all "sports related". I guess you'll have to set up your own organization for the "Analytical X and O Sportswriting Award", or even "Best Game Coverage Award".

Human interest can still be sports-related, but if I'm correct, you don't live here, right? So, these stories likely have no meaning to you, while they meant a lot to the people who live in Oregon.

Bottomline, Canzano wins a major award, while frustrated anonymous posters on the internet gnash their teeth and find a silver-lining for themselves.

 

[Nikolokolus]

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They are all "sports related". I guess you'll have to set up your own organization for the "Analytical X and O Sportswriting Award", or even "Best Game Coverage Award".

Human interest can still be sports-related, but if I'm correct, you don't live here, right? So, these stories likely have no meaning to you, while they meant a lot to the people who live in Oregon.

Bottomline, Canzano wins a major award, while frustrated anonymous posters on the internet gnash their teeth and find a silver-lining for themselves.

I live in Oregon and these stories meant fuck all to me.

 

[ABM]

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Bottomline, Canzano wins a major award, while frustrated anonymous posters on the internet gnash their teeth and find a silver-lining for themselves.

Goody for him. And I also say goody for you for enjoying your hand-delivered O, along with your Folgers crystals drink.

 

[BGrantFan]

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I live in Oregon and these stories meant fuck all to me.

Good for you. I feel otherwise. Canzano wins a major award; you post hypothetical polls on the internet that make no sense.

Who is the real winner today?

 

[BGrantFan]

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Goody for him. And I also say goody for you for enjoying your hand-delivered O, along with your Folgers crystals drink.

Costco Guatemalan blend, my friend.

How are those columns not sports-related?

 

[ABM]

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Costco Guatemalan blend, my friend.

How are those columns not sports-related?

They may be. But, then again, so are you and I.

 

[Minstrel]

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Human interest can still be sports-related

They can happen to touch on sports. Athletes happen to have personal lives, too. Sometimes good/bad things happen to fans of a team. That doesn't make it sports journalism, IMO.

but if I'm correct, you don't live here, right? So, these stories likely have no meaning to you, while they meant a lot to the people who live in Oregon.

I never commented on whether "they have meaning" to people. I'm sure the stories had lots of meaning to people. Human-interest stories here have meaning to people, sometimes even to me. Having meaning is not the same thing as being sports journalism.

Bottomline, Canzano wins a major award, while frustrated anonymous posters on the internet gnash their teeth and find a silver-lining for themselves.

I can't say I care enough to gnash my teeth. I was simply giving my opinion that he apparently won a sports journalism award for his non-sports-related articles. Which, I'm sure, were quite good. I find his sports-related articles to be pretty poor. But his sports-related pieces don't mean enough to me to make me gnash my teeth. Probably because I don't live there. If I lived there, I'm sure Canzano would be a source of great life depression for me.

 

[barfo]

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Human interest can still be sports-related, but if I'm correct, you don't live here, right? So, these stories likely have no meaning to you, while they meant a lot to the people who live in Oregon.

Well, perhaps they meant a lot to some people who live in Oregon. But I'm with Nik.

Bottomline, Canzano wins a major award, while frustrated anonymous posters on the internet gnash their teeth and find a silver-lining for themselves.

I'm not frustrated, it's not an award I care about. But I can find some silver linings:
1) Maybe some bigger city newspaper will finally hire Canzano away, since he's the nation's top sports columnist and all.
2) With circulation dropping like a rock, the Oregonian will be gone in a few years anyway.

barfo

 

[tlongII]

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Canzano is a good writer. I often disagree with him, but he's still a good writer.

 

[BGrantFan]

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I can't say I care enough to gnash my teeth. I was simply giving my opinion that he apparently won a sports journalism award for his non-sports-related articles. Which, I'm sure, were quite good. I find his sports-related articles to be pretty poor. But his sports-related pieces don't mean enough to me to make me gnash my teeth. Probably because I don't live there. If I lived there, I'm sure Canzano would be a source of great life depression for me.

You don't care, you seemingly have trouble with the idea of "sports-related column", yet you then go on to say he would be a source of depression if you lived in Oregon.

Oh, the anonymity of the interwebs. I love that aspect of it, obviously.

 

[BGrantFan]

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Well, perhaps they meant a lot to some people who live in Oregon. But I'm with Nik.


barfo

I thought the articles on Katie Shearer really captured what the Blazers mean to this city, even for those who were about to die. I guess it meant "fuck" to me.

Perhaps I should become more jaded and post lame polls on the internet about a topic that nobody cares about.

 

[BBert]

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If Canzano is so damned good, then why they hell doesn't he get a job in a major market and put me out of my misery?

 

[Minstrel]

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You don't care, you seemingly have trouble with the idea of "sports-related column", yet you then go on to say he would be a source of depression if you lived in Oregon.

I don't care, I disagree that these were "sports-related" and I made a joke. Yahtzee!

Oh, the anonymity of the interwebs. I love that aspect of it, obviously.

You take anonymity to the next level, trying to hide your old Internet name. That's cutting edge!

And I have no problem giving my real name right here and now. It's Obama McYao. You want to meet and make something of it, tough guy?

 

[BGrantFan]

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If Canzano is so damned good, then why they hell doesn't he get a job in a major market and put me out of my misery?

Define "major market". The Oregonian has the largest subscriber base north of San Francisco and west of Denver. It puts the Seattle rags to shame.

 

[ABM]

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I thought the articles on Katie Shearer really captured what the Blazers mean to this city....

Thing is, that column could just as well have been written by Margie Boule.

But, I digress...........

 

[BGrantFan]

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You take anonymity to the next level, trying to hide your old Internet name. That's cutting edge!

And I have no problem giving my real name right here and now. It's Obama McYao. You want to meet and make something of it, tough guy?

Yes, that's why I winked. No idea about the old name, but I do find the cloak of anonymity to be quite comfortable. It makes it near-impossible to actually act like a normal human being.

 

[BGrantFan]

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Thing is, that column could just as well have been written by Margie Boule.

But, I digress...........

I think a lot of people here don't understand the difference between a columnist and a beat writer. No surprise, given what I read on this board.

 

[barfo]

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Define "major market". The Oregonian has the largest subscriber base north of San Francisco and west of Denver. It puts the Seattle rags to shame.

It's the 19th biggest paper in the country at 263,600. Seattle is the 20th at 263,468. Those extra 132 subscribers really put Seattle to shame, all right.

Considering the population, the Oregonian actually does pretty well. Houston Chronicle has only another 100,000 subscribers, yet Houston has almost 6 million people in the metro area.

I'd define major market as the top 10 or so papers, myself.

barfo

 

[BGrantFan]

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It's the 19th biggest paper in the country at 263,600. Seattle is the 20th at 263,468. Those extra 132 subscribers really put Seattle to shame, all right.

Considering the population, the Oregonian actually does pretty well. Houston Chronicle has only another 100,000 subscribers, yet Houston has almost 6 million people in the metro area.

I'd define major market as the top 10 or so papers, myself.

barfo

Thank you for defining a major market to me. Meanwhile, the LA Times is bankrupt, the Boston Globe is about to shut down, and the NYT stock price has been plummeting for years.

 

[barfo]

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Thank you for defining a major market to me.

Least I could do, since you asked. But I don't think I defined it "to" you, I just gave you my opinion.

Meanwhile, the LA Times is bankrupt, the Boston Globe is about to shut down, and the NYT stock price has been plummeting for years.

Whereas the Oregonian is in great shape? The newspaper business is going down the toilet, no paper is immune. But I don't see how that has anything to do with which papers are major market papers.

barfo

 

[tlongII]

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Newspapers just need to learn how to make money on the internet. The thirst for information/news is as great as ever. The companies that learn how to adapt to the world of the internet will do fine.