Episode 27: Sports Writing

The Watchung Booksellers Podcast

In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, veteran journalists Harvey Araton and Mark McClusky discuss sports writing and sports media.
Harvey Araton is a longtime New York sports journalist whose career spanned four newspapers-the Staten Island Advance, New York Post, Daily News and New York Times, where he was a Sports of the Times columnist and also wrote for other sections. He was nominated by the Times for a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 and was inducted into the media wing of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017. Araton is the author or co-author of eight nonfiction books and a novel. He has also taught media courses as an adjunct at Montclair State University. He lives with his wife, Beth Albert, in Montclair, where his sons went to school.

Mark McClusky is the Head of Content at Harding Loevner in Bridgewater, New Jersey. Before joining the firm in 2021, he was the Digital Editor of Sports Illustrated, the Editor of Wired.com, and a long-time media executive at the forefront of new storytelling technologies and platforms. McClusky is the author of the New York Times bestseller Faster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes and What We Can Learn From Them. His magazine writing has been anthologized in Best American Science & Nature Writing, and he’s made numerous media and speaking appearances, including NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, CNN, CNBC, PBS NewsHour, NPR, and South by Southwest. A graduate of Carleton College, Mark lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife and two daughters.

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