On the "Expert Opinion with Graham Spanier" show that aired Oct. 14 on the Big Ten Network, panelists Marie Hardin, Kathleen Hessert and Jason Kint discuss the impact of online and social media. Hardin is associate director for research at Penn State's John Curley Center for Sports Journalism. Hessert is founder and president of Charlotte, NC-based Sports Media Challenge, a firm that offers coaching in traditional and social media to athletes and other sports-industry clients. Kint is senior vice president and general manager of CBS Sports.com. Spanier and the panelists examine the breadth of new media, its merits and faults, whether coaches' and athletes' use of technology like Twitter and text messaging is flirting with NCAA recruiting violations, and what the future of sports reporting might look like given the dominance of new media today.
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