Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast
Kevin Fishbain, senior writer at The Athletic, interviews sports media personalities about their origin stories. Each week, reporters, columnists, play-by-play announcers, sports radio hosts, television anchors, producers and more will tell Kevin about their first jobs in the industry, and how they broke in.
Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast
Mark Lazerus, senior NHL writer at The Athletic
In episode 33, Kevin chats with Mark Lazerus, senior NHL writer at The Athletic and Chicago Blackhawks beat writer. "Laz," who's in his 14th season covering the Blackhawks, has been named one of the top three columnists in the country twice in the past three years by the Associated Press Sports Editors. Before Lazerus was chronicling the Hawks' Stanley Cup wins, or more recently, their rebuild, he was designing newspapers in Northwest Indiana and covering high school and Valparaiso sports. You'll hear about his internships, the first hockey game he covered in Pittsburgh, and what it was like to have high school players' parents yell at him. Hear how Mark Lazerus broke in.