Fox Sports eliminates digital writing staff in favor of promoting their debate

Man, so many college football writers on the free agent market.

Update: Here’s the list of layoffs Awful Announcing has learned of so far, in alphabetical order:

Chris Bahr (editor), Pete Blackburn (writer), Jonathan Bradley (writer), Dan Carson (writer), Chris Chase (writer), Cam DaSilva (writer), Lindsey Foltin (editor), Sam Garner (writer), Dan Graf (editor), Tom Jensen (editor), Dieter Kurtenbach (writer), Damon Martin (writer), Pat Muldowney (senior manager of social media), Caitlin Murray (writer), Andy Nesbitt (social media, The Buzzer), Brett Pollakoff (writer), Ryan Rosenblatt (editor), Nate Scott (editor), Chris Strauss (editor), Nick Schwartz (editor/writer), Aaron Torres (writer), Barry Werner (editor), Aaron West (writer), Tyson Winter (social media).

Bruce Feldman and Stewart Mandel also mentioned that they are out, although, Feldman may continue on as a Fox Sideline reporter.

Kurtenbach is addition by subtraction.

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espn and Fox Sports writing and announcing changed for the worst a few years back. They wanted to “dunk” words instead of making actual sense. It backfired. The same can be said when espn added politics. I understand the one second attention span but have we become this stupid. I will never admit to that. Bad writing has consequences too.

Feldman gets picked up by SI:

https://twitter.com/BruceFeldmanCFB/status/881887699329613824

Right after changing the online media presence…Hopefully, they’ll go in a different direction.

Horowitz was responsible for the rash of Fox Sports shouting matches that have failed to build off the success he had in steering ESPN’s Embrace Debate era. His most recent action was an attempt to further push the company’s TV personalities on its website. Given that Horowitz’s firing comes one week after Fox Sports laid off roughly 20 writers as part of his strategy for the site to lean more heavily on video, this couldn’t have been planned.