2/27/2023 0 Comments Angry bots always comes with unityI look back at those paragraphs now and alternatively grin and blench. What I’d really love, however, would be for The Bounce to evolve into a platform for emerging voices and some of my favourite sports thinkers and writers.” “In the future I’d love to explore The Bounce: Podcast I see live chats and panel discussions. I will get to cricket tests, to rugby tests, and to a bunch of other stuff. There will be reportage from on the ground. There will be reviews, listicles and links to some of the best sports journalism from around the globe. ![]() There will be opinion, there will be critical analysis both fervent and sober, there will be narratives and features, profiles and oral histories. “I’m attracted to the idea that The Bounce is no one thing. Sure, there was a long-term vision statement in that opening essay, but how do I actually go about making the following paragraphs something more than delusions of grandeur. Now that people are paying me, I have to deliver, and what exactly does delivery look like? How often? How long? What time? What topics? It just goes by a different name: responsibility. The relief almost instantly circles back to fear. It was also, as I would learn, deceptive. One writer, one beer, one pixel (Photo: Dylan Cleaver via potato) So when my inbox started “pinging” that morning it was an enormous sense of relief and that evening I sat at my desk and enjoyed a beer. Charlatans and psychologists alike have made money trying to interpret that dream but my recurring nightmare in the lead-up to September 6, 2021, didn’t require any deep analysis. And my much valued subscribers support that decision and I hope will continue to do so.Īpparently one of the most common recurring nightmares, even after leaving school, is turning up to class and discovering you forgot to put pants on. ![]() I still feel awkward about including a donation button in my newsletters but I have to remind myself that this is it, this is how I have chosen to make my living. Also a slightly discomfiting one – as a salaried man for so long, it’s a little weird asking for your money, your private equity if you will.” That fear was encapsulated in this paragraph from the introductory essay: “Even the seemingly simple task of writing a ‘welcome note’ has been an energising exercise. I had a new email address and if my inbox wasn’t being exercised, then I was in a bit of trouble. This one, I had no choice but to stick around and wait for a reaction. įor much of the previous 25 years, I had written stories, filed them, forgotten them and moved on to the next. Simultaneously, on the Substack platform, the same essay appeared under the headline, Some breaking news I want to share with you: Introducing The Bounce, a newsletter on sport, the business of sport and other things loosely related to sport. One year and one day ago a personal essay appeared on The Spinoff titled Why I left traditional sports journalism behind to start a newsletter about sports. ![]() ![]() This story first appeared on The Bounce, a Substack newsletter by Dylan Cleaver. Fresh from being named best sports journalist at the Voyager media awards, Dylan Cleaver reflects on a year out on his own.
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