Watch the Media with John Shrader

   MELISSA JACOBS  Melissa is the founder and managing editor of The Football Girl.com and the host of the Football Girl podcast. She is dedicated to presenting the stories of women who work in, and cover football and especially the NFL. She is a former producer at ESPN and a former editor at Sports Illustrated. Her podcast just celebrated its one-year anniversary. 

   Watch the Media  May 2019  MALCOM MORAN  Director of the Sports Capital Journalism Program, at IUPUI 59:59 Malcolm Moran, a long-time American sports journalist (including New York Times and USA Today), is the director of the Sports Capital Journalism Program at IUPUI in Indianapolis. We talk about sports journalism – where it’s been, where it is now and where it’s goin...

   CHARLIE MEYER President and General Manager,  Lincoln Saltdogs The Saltdogs of the independent baseball league The American Association start their 19th season in Lincoln. Charlie Meyer has been running the team since its creation before the 2001 season. He talks about how they got it started, the nature of independent baseball, the relationship with UNL, the mission of the team...

David Berri  Economics Professor, Southern Utah University   He researches and writes prolifically about sport and gender. We talk about the challenges facing women in sport, both on the field and in the sports media business; the WNBA, Women’s soccer, women in the broadcast booth and in sports journalism. Berri brings a deep knowledge of the subject, with historical perspective as well.

April 2019  Aron Oberholser talks about "The Needle" - the term used by commentators to refer to Tiger Woods.  Oberholser says Woods doesn't move the needle on golf interest, he is the needle.  He has some thoughts about Woods's drive for three more Grand Slam titles, which would tie Jack Nicklaus's record; about what other players, especially in this new generation of golfers, feel...

MIKE’L SEVERE             Host, The Bottom Line radio show New Host, Big Red Wrap-up on NET We talk about the new TV gig, his radio show, how to reach the audience. The Nebraska sports scene. (interview recorded April 17, 2019)

   MITCH SHERMAN He is the new Nebraska/Huskers staff writer for The Athletic, which is a digital-only sports journalism outlet. He spent eight years with ESPN after more than a decade with the Omaha World Herald. He will cover the Huskers and college sports mostly. He’s leaving the biggest sports media company to join what could still be considered a startup. (Interview conducted March...

JOSH SUCHON   Enters his 7th season as the voice of the Triple-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies. He does nine innings by himself 140 times a year as the voice of the Isotopes. He is intensely interested in getting a Major League PxP job. He's a former journalist who brings a journalist's approach to announcing games. He hosts a podcast, "Life Around the Seams." Josh is also voice of the Un...

Stan Bunger has been the morning news show anchor on KCBS Radio in San Francisco since 2000. He’s worked at the station for nearly 30 years. Steve Scott has been the afternoon news show anchor at WCBS Radio in New York since 2006. He spent 25 years in Chicago, most of the time at WLS Radio.  We talk about the process of doing news, why it’s still relevant in the days of new media delivery, th...

STEVE SIPPLE AND JAKE SORENSEN Hosts of the show Early Break on KNTK, 97.3 FM, THE TICKET in Lincoln. They have hosted the show since May 2016. They do two hours of sports talk live, 6-8 am.  This Watch the Media program includes an interview with the hosts during which they talk about what they do, how and why they do it, and it includes excerpts of their program. This show includes short in...

Rick Klein is the Political Director of ABC News, based in Washington. He helps direct the daily and big picture coverage of politics. He also hosts a weekly podcast with White House reporter Jonathan Karl, "Powerhouse Politics."  Klein has acute insights into the place Donald Trump holds in politics, journalism and American culture, as well as the state of journalism in America.

 KEVIN SJUTS is the Sports Director of KOLN/KGIN Television, Channels 10/11 in Lincoln, Nebraska. He is a winner of the state Sportscaster of the Year.  He shoots video, produces, writes and delivers sports at least five nights a week. We talk about his career, the process of doing local sports in 2019, balancing high school and the Huskers, and balancing work and family life.  The...

We talk about his career, where he came, what he did before he came to ESPN.  We talk extensively about what a SportsCenter anchor does, and how they do it; also, about his career expansion from doing SportsCenter, which he still does, to doing college basketball play-by-play and live boxing shows.  We talk about the new delivery models of sports television, and what it means to you...

ANDREW BUCHOLTZ covers media. We talk about the NFL ratings and the future of sports television; also college sports on television and much more.  

CHRIS HEADY covers Nebraska Huskers football and basketball for the state's largest newspaper. We talk about finding new and interesting ways to tell stories, how to cover the Huskers, how to do newspaper work in the age of multi-platform media presentation. He is a graduate of the UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications.

Jon Miller has been the voice of the Giants for nearly a quarter-century. He spent more than two decades as the voice of Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN. He's a Bay Area native, and quite possibly the best stylist in baseball today.

Jeff Koterba is the editorial cartoonist of the Omaha World Herald and a musician and writer. He has a compelling personal life story, which we talk about at length.

ARRON OBERHOLSER is an analyst on The Golf Channel. He does in-studio, on the course, and in-tower analysis. He's a former PGA winner who spent about a decade as a professional before injuries ended his career. He was an All-American at San Jose State who competed against a young man at Stanford named Tiger Woods. We talk about what he does, the best announcers in the business, the road to becomin...