This fall, upon the conclusion of the Major League Baseball season, Alex Stumpf will be promoted to a position of enterprise/feature writing across all beats. He broached it with us a year ago, and it'll finally come to pass. This is what he wants to do. The capital-J journalism. He's good. He's earned it.
We'll be stronger for it.
Over these past few weeks, including on this very Wednesday night, I've been interviewing people from all over the continent and all walks of life to add to our staff. The first-priority hire will need to do baseball, obviously, but also other stuff. We've heard from people who were recently laid off at national outlets, we've heard from people at newspapers, and we've heard from students right out of college. I have no idea who we'll choose, but the focus will be journalism, just as with Alex's new role.
