E28 | Dylan Cleaver
Episode summary | Dylan Cleaver
He’s won 34 journalism awards across 25 years as a sports writer and broken some of the biggest stories in NZ sport history.
We talk to Dylan Cleaver about Chris Cairns, mysterious tip-offs, the state of sport journalism in NZ, why he won’t let his kids play rugby, life on tour with the Alternative Commentary Collective and much more.
Show notes | Dylan Cleaver
2.25 How Seamus and Steve know Dylan
4.15 Unraveling the cricket match fixing allegations of 2013
30.24 Sunday papers and old school sports journalism
47.38 Analytics and paywalls: The current state of sports journalism
56.18 New Zealand’s most award-winning sports journalist
1.00.53 Would you let your kids play rugby? Leading the conversation on concussion
1.27.27 On tour with the Alternative Commentary Collective
1.31.39 “A slightly above average school cricketer and a slightly below average club cricketer”
1.38.38 The best stories are often the ones you can’t publish
1.43.07 Cleaver on sports leadership in New Zealand
1.47.10 What sport gets Dylan excited in 2020?
1.51.17 Where does New Zealand’s leading sports journalist consume his media from?
2.00.06 The Old Ghost Road, running and runner’s trots
2.05.02 “Football people are the worst people in New Zealand”
2.15.12 Last words from Seamus, Steve and Dylan
