In a sad day for the print media, the Hartford Courant has let Red Sox beat reporter Jeff Goldberg go.
“I just don’t have a beat writer to cover it anymore,” he said, noting last year’s Sox scribe, Jeff Goldberg, took a buyout. “For the first time, we will not cover them home and away.”
Goldberg’s departure was part of a significant cut last September that reduced the paper’s staffing by 25%. For sports, it marked the final cut in a beat coverage approach that had provided staff writers for the Red Sox, New England Patriots, New York Yankees and New York Giants in past years.
Goldberg was one of the best beat reporters covering the Sox last year so I would bet he ends up with another gig, most likely WEEI.com.
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