Suellentrop moving from the Eagle to WSU

[RoyalShock]

Paul Suellentrop to report for GoShockers

Highly respected sports journalist Paul Suellentrop is joining Wichita State as a senior communicator to provide comprehensive coverage of the Shockers' momentous first season competing in the American Athletic Conference and beyond.

[shocks02]

Very interesting. What does this mean for the Eagle?

[RoyalShock]

An ad for his vacated beat writer position hit the interwebz yesterday:

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/wichita-state-beat-writer-wichita-eagle.126870

[washedup]

Very interesting. What does this mean for the Eagle?

It can't be good. Wonder if they're phasing out sports except for high school coverage. Seminoff moved to the editorial side; no columnist since Lutz retired and now this.

[WstateU]

[1972Shocker]

It can't be good. Wonder if they're phasing out sports except for high school coverage. Seminoff moved to the editorial side; no columnist since Lutz retired and now this.

Could it be the Eagle would explore the possibiity of a deal with WSU to simply piggyback on Paul's reporting for WSU.

[another shocker]

if a sporting event ends any time after, say, 4:00 pm central, the eagle won't have a report the next day. what with wsu's move to the aac, that concerns me.

[Kung Wu]

Whoa!

[Kung Wu]

Hilarious!

[Cdizzle]

WSU's athletic department media face just got a lot more professional.

The Eagle isn't a Wichita paper any more anyway. Suellentrop was about the only thing left worth reading.

[Rocky Mountain Shock]

Good for GoShockers, bad for the Eagle. Whatever happened to Tony Adame? He seemed to be Sully's heir apparent.

[Aargh]

I would not be surprised if Suellentrop's reports on WSU sports are still in the Eagle. The Eagle would just pay a per article price, instead of covering Suellentrop's entire salary.

People I'm acquainted with who are familiar with Eagle staff are reporting that the layoffs there are hitting a lot of the Eagle's better writers and reporters.

[RoyalShock]

The Eagle is looking to fill his position.

[SHOXAAC]

The Eagle still has an online presence to account for.

[Cdizzle]

I would not be surprised if Suellentrop's reports on WSU sports are still in the Eagle. The Eagle would just pay a per article price, instead of covering Suellentrop's entire salary.

People I'm acquainted with who are familiar with Eagle staff are reporting that the layoffs there are hitting a lot of the Eagle's better writers and reporters.

The paper paying for a report from a university mouthpiece is a pretty solid slap in the face of journalistic integrity. I don't think Sully is some slimy guy, but he's going to be getting paid by the university---he's going to write what makes the school look good, not necessarily everything that should be written about.