{"id":108,"date":"2011-11-24T10:42:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T15:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/?p=108"},"modified":"2011-11-24T10:42:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T15:42:51","slug":"the-people-behind-the-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2011\/11\/24\/the-people-behind-the-curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"The People Behind the Curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Twiss, Nate Greenberg, Dick Bresciani, Moose Hoffman…Legendary members of the Boston pro sports teams for decades…Never heard of them?…Well, they probably like it fine just that way…..That’s because they are the Media Relations gurus who can make a reporter’s life easy or make it miserable….And make no mistake about it, you need to have these people on your side…<\/p>\n

Just like reporters, \u00a0job descriptions for the Media Relations people have changed as well in this internet age…It’s no longer just handing out credentials and game notes and making sure stories don’t leak…Eric Lindquist<\/a> is currently working for the American Hockey League’s Worcester Sharks…His ultimate goal might be play by play somewhere but he knows game day can be hectic…”We have The Worcester Sharks feed, the A-H-L feed, Facebook and I’m always e-mailing during the games…It’s almost triple the work the last few years”…But like many aspiring athletes who discovered they couldn’t hit the curve ball or the eighteen foot jumper, \u00a0Lindquist found out it can be an amazingly rewarding challenge…<\/p>\n

Brian Olive<\/a> started his front office \u00a0journey in college…Majoring in sports management, Olive hooked on with the Boston Celtics right out of school and now is one of three full time media relations workers…He deals with a lot of blossoming reporters and offers a word of advice to those walking into the room for the first time: \u00a0“As fun as it is to be in the locker room, take the fan portion out of it and just realize you’re there to do a job.”…<\/p>\n

But lest you think they are there just to serve, be advised they too have an agenda…The reporting field has swelled with bloggers and website reporters and people like Olive and Lindquist have to pick and choose who gets in….Lindquist was particularly candid when he stated, \u00a0“The whole idea of me giving you a pass is to help us expand what’s going on here…Give us some love once in a while…I read their(bloggers) stuff every day and if they’re grilling my coach I’ll grab em the next day and say “what are you doing, help me out here”…The Media Relations people have bosses too and nobody likes negative publicity…<\/p>\n

Coaches coach, players play, the Media Relations people know all the information…At the end of the day, reporters will find their jobs a lot easier if they have a friend in the front office…And look at it this way, as a rising Media Relations person, working your way up to the “bigs”, just might get a chance to wear one of those cool mascot uniforms!…what could be bad….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff Twiss, Nate Greenberg, Dick Bresciani, Moose Hoffman…Legendary members of the Boston pro sports teams for decades…Never heard of them?…Well, they probably like it fine just that way…..That’s because they are the Media Relations gurus who can make a reporter’s life easy or make it miserable….And make no mistake about it, you need to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}