Franklin, Winston to Address National Press Club
Oct. 11, 2009 11:53 a.m.
National Sports Journalism Center Director Timothy A. Franklin and Indiana University business professor Wayne Winston will address the National Press Club in Washington on October 20 about the use of statistics in sports and in the media.
Winston will explain how statistics can be used to predict how a player changes a team’s chances of winning. Winston is the author of Mathletics (Princeton University Press), a new book that explains why the sports statistics that newspapers publish are useless and which stats actually matter when evaluating players and teams in football, basketball and baseball. He is a professor at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and creator of the Dallas Maverick’s player evaluation system with Jeff Sagarin. He’ll also use his stats-based projections to analyze this season’s prospects for the Washington Redskins and Baltimore Ravens.
Winston will be joined by Timothy A. Franklin, director of IU’s National Sports Journalism Center and former editor of The Baltimore Sun and sports editor of the Chicago Tribune. Franklin will discuss how sports statistics can enable reporters to give their readers new insights into the teams they cover. He also will address trends in sports media more generally.
Formed in January, the National Sports Journalism Center is based at Indiana University’s School of Journalism at IUPUI, and also includes course instruction and programs at IU-Bloomington. The center’s mission is to provide instruction, discussion and research on the issues facing sports journalists. The center is now the home of the Associated Press Sports Editors, the nation’s largest professional sports media organization. It also produces the nation’s most comprehensive sports media Web site, www.sportsjournalism.org.
Russ Thaler, anchor for SportsNite on Comcast SportsNet as well as chief digital correspondent at CSNWashington.com, will moderate the event. Thaler was formerly the host of Washington Post Live. He now blogs about the Redskins, Ravens, and sports in general when he’s not anchoring SportsNite.
The National Press Club event is free and open to the public. It will take place at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 in the Lisagor Room, 13th floor, National Press Building, 529 14th St., N.W.
For futher information, please contact:
Lura Forcum
Communications Manager
Kelley School of Business at Indiana University
o: 812.856.1232
m: 773.505.2146
Winston will explain how statistics can be used to predict how a player changes a team’s chances of winning. Winston is the author of Mathletics (Princeton University Press), a new book that explains why the sports statistics that newspapers publish are useless and which stats actually matter when evaluating players and teams in football, basketball and baseball. He is a professor at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and creator of the Dallas Maverick’s player evaluation system with Jeff Sagarin. He’ll also use his stats-based projections to analyze this season’s prospects for the Washington Redskins and Baltimore Ravens.
Winston will be joined by Timothy A. Franklin, director of IU’s National Sports Journalism Center and former editor of The Baltimore Sun and sports editor of the Chicago Tribune. Franklin will discuss how sports statistics can enable reporters to give their readers new insights into the teams they cover. He also will address trends in sports media more generally.
Formed in January, the National Sports Journalism Center is based at Indiana University’s School of Journalism at IUPUI, and also includes course instruction and programs at IU-Bloomington. The center’s mission is to provide instruction, discussion and research on the issues facing sports journalists. The center is now the home of the Associated Press Sports Editors, the nation’s largest professional sports media organization. It also produces the nation’s most comprehensive sports media Web site, www.sportsjournalism.org.
Russ Thaler, anchor for SportsNite on Comcast SportsNet as well as chief digital correspondent at CSNWashington.com, will moderate the event. Thaler was formerly the host of Washington Post Live. He now blogs about the Redskins, Ravens, and sports in general when he’s not anchoring SportsNite.
The National Press Club event is free and open to the public. It will take place at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 in the Lisagor Room, 13th floor, National Press Building, 529 14th St., N.W.
For futher information, please contact:
Lura Forcum
Communications Manager
Kelley School of Business at Indiana University
o: 812.856.1232
m: 773.505.2146
