Just Kickin’ It

Just Kickin It blog shutting down

September

About a month ago, The Journal News underwent a massive restructuring. Many people lost their jobs. Many others quit because they were at risk of losing their jobs.

When it was all over, the sports staff had been reduced significantly. That has forced us to change the way we cover sports at the professional and local level. It was decided that we no longer have the manpower to assign individual beats as we did before. There are too many sports to cover and not enough reporters to do the job.

I was the boys soccer beat writer last season and the girls soccer beat writer before that. That is no longer the case. Like the other sports reporters, I am now a general assignment reporter who will cover all sports.

One of the effects of not having beat writers is that there is no one to maintain the blogs. Therefore this soccer blog is no longer active. All high school sports are now being consolidated into one blog, called Gameday Central. You can find it here. The posts on soccer will be clearly marked as such.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 at 10:44 pm by Jake Thomases. Print | Email

3 Responses to “Just Kickin It blog shutting down”

Xcal September 22nd, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Thanks Jake, I hope you guys will be able to rebuild soon.
harv sibley September 23rd, 2009 at 7:40 am
Jake: sorry to hear this.. this blog was one of the best sources of info on Section 1 soccer. Its a shame. I’m also very concerned about LoHud’s reduced print paper recently. It seems like the Sports section has been reduced and combined with Lifestyles. I know print media is on the decline, but cancelling the blog is the opposite direction to take….

wishing you well.

harv
HE October 5th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Jake: sorry to hear this.. this blog was one of the best sources of info on Section 1 soccer. Its a shame. I’m also very concerned about LoHud’s reduced print paper recently. It seems like the Sports section has been reduced and combined with Lifestyles. I know print media is on the decline, but cancelling the blog is the opposite direction to take….

wishing you well.

harv

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