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Date Posted: 18:43:16 01/21/11 Fri
Author: Sports Ed
Subject: Robinson quits AP?

AP has the Pittsburgh sports job posted. Apparently Alan Robinson had some sort of blow-up with management and quit on the spot after 30+ years with the company and more than 25 in Pittsburgh. The national NFL writers are in town, so they'll handle the AFC Championship game.

There's a plum job for someone, although I'll bet AP promotes someone from within the company.

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[> Re: Robinson quits AP? -- The Truth, 15:57:36 01/22/11 Sat [1]

It's a plum job if you don't mind working 450 days per year. Alan Robinson worked his butt off.

>AP has the Pittsburgh sports job posted. Apparently
>Alan Robinson had some sort of blow-up with management
>and quit on the spot after 30+ years with the company
>and more than 25 in Pittsburgh. The national NFL
>writers are in town, so they'll handle the AFC
>Championship game.
>
>There's a plum job for someone, although I'll bet AP
>promotes someone from within the company.

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[> Re: Robinson quits AP? -- According to another message board, 08:06:34 01/23/11 Sun [1]

Here's what happened, minus however skeptical you are about message boards as sources-

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/index.php/topic,81715.0.html

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[> [> A-Rob Found! -- DeSoto, 13:41:44 01/27/11 Thu [1]

Apparently he's writing for Duquesne's website now-

http://www.goduquesne.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/012711aab.html

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[> Re: Robinson quits AP? -- RiverQueen, 16:11:58 01/27/11 Thu [1]

Pittsburgh's AP office is a bloody mess. Yates left and now Joe Mandak is the last man standing. That guy's got one tool in his toolbox and that's an outdated hammer.

>AP has the Pittsburgh sports job posted. Apparently
>Alan Robinson had some sort of blow-up with management
>and quit on the spot after 30+ years with the company
>and more than 25 in Pittsburgh. The national NFL
>writers are in town, so they'll handle the AFC
>Championship game.
>
>There's a plum job for someone, although I'll bet AP
>promotes someone from within the company.

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[> [> Re: Robinson quits AP? -- AP reader, 06:12:06 01/28/11 Fri [1]

What happened to Ramesh?

>Pittsburgh's AP office is a bloody mess. Yates left
>and now Joe Mandak is the last man standing. That
>guy's got one tool in his toolbox and that's an
>outdated hammer.
>
>>AP has the Pittsburgh sports job posted. Apparently
>>Alan Robinson had some sort of blow-up with management
>>and quit on the spot after 30+ years with the company
>>and more than 25 in Pittsburgh. The national NFL
>>writers are in town, so they'll handle the AFC
>>Championship game.
>>
>>There's a plum job for someone, although I'll bet AP
>>promotes someone from within the company.

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[> [> [> Re: Robinson quits AP? -- Charles Foster Kane, 20:01:00 01/31/11 Mon [1]

>>What happened to Ramesh?

he left quite some time ago (on his own, not by buyout). After bouncing around he recently landed quite-gainful employment with, i believe, the pgh. symphony.

Around the time ramesh was still there, it was 6 to 8 writers/editors. As of last summer i was told the bureau was down to 2 reporters and 2 photogs (editing is done from phily now). This meant staffing M-F 8 to 530-ish, after which the phones forward to philadelphia -- which itself closes around 11 pm.

In other words, if you don't see it move from Pgh by dinnertime, it ain't a-gonna move. So fill your pages with those 4-inch stories they already sent.

was the reference elsewhere to Yates leaving talking about jennifer? She was one of the two left.

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[> Re: Robinson quits AP? -- Just Wondering, 19:33:56 01/31/11 Mon [1]

How many staffers does Pittsburgh AP have now? It used to be six or seven, with two photogs.

>AP has the Pittsburgh sports job posted. Apparently
>Alan Robinson had some sort of blow-up with management
>and quit on the spot after 30+ years with the company
>and more than 25 in Pittsburgh. The national NFL
>writers are in town, so they'll handle the AFC
>Championship game.
>
>There's a plum job for someone, although I'll bet AP
>promotes someone from within the company.

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[> Re: Robinson quits AP? -- Jay, 02:23:23 10/20/11 Thu [1]

>AP has the Pittsburgh sports job posted. Apparently
>Alan Robinson had some sort of blow-up with management
>and quit on the spot after 30+ years with the company
>and more than 25 in Pittsburgh. The national NFL
>writers are in town, so they'll handle the AFC
>Championship game.
>
>There's a plum job for someone, although I'll bet AP
>promotes someone from within the company.

The new guy seems to be pacing himself.

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[> [> Re: Robinson quits AP? -- tommygun8, 11:47:46 10/29/11 Sat [1]

>>AP has the Pittsburgh sports job posted. Apparently
>>Alan Robinson had some sort of blow-up with management
>>and quit on the spot after 30+ years with the company
>>and more than 25 in Pittsburgh. The national NFL
>>writers are in town, so they'll handle the AFC
>>Championship game.
>>
>>There's a plum job for someone, although I'll bet AP
>>promotes someone from within the company.
>
>The new guy seems to be pacing himself.

"Pacing" isn't the correct word ... that would suggest there's actual work getting done. Word on the street is the guy's miserable, wishes he were back at his low-profile former job that permitted him to get by writing a couple of stories a week, is homesick, blah, blah, blah. His twitter account is full of references to his former location, almost none to Pittsburgh.

Understand most of the work Robinson did is being handled by freelancers and that AP members aren't happy with losing much of the voluminous Steelers coverage they had for years.

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[> [> [> Re: Robinson quits AP? -- Suburbanite, 13:55:26 10/31/11 Mon [1]

It's not so much the Steelers coverage that's lacking as it is the Penguins and Pitt stuff. There have been more stories out of Penn State on the wire about that bad basketball program than there have been about the top-10 Pitt basketball program.
There were no AP stories on the Penguins draft the entire weekend of the draft.

>>>AP has the Pittsburgh sports job posted. Apparently
>>>Alan Robinson had some sort of blow-up with
>management
>>>and quit on the spot after 30+ years with the company
>>>and more than 25 in Pittsburgh. The national NFL
>>>writers are in town, so they'll handle the AFC
>>>Championship game.
>>>
>>>There's a plum job for someone, although I'll bet AP
>>>promotes someone from within the company.
>>
>>The new guy seems to be pacing himself.
>
>"Pacing" isn't the correct word ... that would suggest
>there's actual work getting done. Word on the street
>is the guy's miserable, wishes he were back at his
>low-profile former job that permitted him to get by
>writing a couple of stories a week, is homesick, blah,
>blah, blah. His twitter account is full of references
>to his former location, almost none to Pittsburgh.
>
>Understand most of the work Robinson did is being
>handled by freelancers and that AP members aren't
>happy with losing much of the voluminous Steelers
>coverage they had for years.

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[> Re: Robinson quits AP? -- Dribbler, 03:56:28 03/09/12 Fri [1]

I heard he's working for Duquesne's basketball coach.

>AP has the Pittsburgh sports job posted. Apparently
>Alan Robinson had some sort of blow-up with management
>and quit on the spot after 30+ years with the company
>and more than 25 in Pittsburgh. The national NFL
>writers are in town, so they'll handle the AFC
>Championship game.
>
>There's a plum job for someone, although I'll bet AP
>promotes someone from within the company.

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