{"id":3896,"date":"2017-04-24T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2017-05-02T00:27:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T00:27:41","slug":"interview-with-kyle-franko-sports-editor-of-the-trentonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/interview-with-kyle-franko-sports-editor-of-the-trentonian\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Kyle Franko, Sports Editor of &#8216;The Trentonian&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, I held a phone interview with Kyle Franko, the Sports Editor of <i>The Trentonian<\/i>. \u00a0A Rutgers graduate, Franko got his start at the university\u2019s acclaimed student newspaper, <i>The Daily Targum<\/i>. \u00a0He was hired by <i>The Trentonian <\/i>fresh out of college, and worked his way up to his current position over the course of five years.<\/p>\n<p>In our energetic, insightful, and often funny conversation, Franko\u2019s words painted a portrait of a journalist fiercely dedicated to his craft. \u00a0He dug into his transition from playing sports to writing about them, highlighting his college courses and paper as key contributors to his reporting abilities. \u00a0He detailed <i>The Trentonian<\/i>\u2019s intimate relationship with Mercer County, and that staying local is the paper\u2019s key to remaining afloat in a sea of competition. \u00a0He shared some of his most memorable stories, like when an injured Alex Rodriguez showed up to play at a Trenton Thunder game with 12 hours notice. \u00a0And, he expressed hope that journalism, even in a world where the president is willing to denounce it as \u201cfake news,\u201d would continue to thrive and keep the country\u2019s powerful in check.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/318833114&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, I held a phone interview with Kyle Franko, the Sports Editor of The Trentonian. \u00a0A Rutgers graduate, Franko got his start at the university\u2019s acclaimed student newspaper, The Daily Targum. \u00a0He was hired by The Trentonian fresh out of college, and worked his way up to his current position over the course of five years. In our energetic, insightful, and often funny conversation, Franko\u2019s words painted a portrait of a journalist fiercely dedicated to his craft. \u00a0He dug into his transition from playing sports to writing about them, highlighting his college courses and paper as key contributors to his reporting abilities. \u00a0He detailed The Trentonian\u2019s intimate relationship with Mercer County, and that staying local is the paper\u2019s key to remaining afloat in a sea of competition. \u00a0He shared some of his most memorable stories, like when an injured Alex Rodriguez showed up to play at a Trenton Thunder game with 12 hours notice. \u00a0And, he expressed hope that journalism, even in a world where the president is willing to denounce it as \u201cfake news,\u201d would continue to thrive and keep the country\u2019s powerful in check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presshistory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions\/3918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}