{"id":109254,"date":"2020-04-29T11:35:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T15:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/?p=109254"},"modified":"2020-04-29T13:41:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T17:41:19","slug":"bob-ford-leaving-the-philadelphia-inquirer-after-32-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/2020\/04\/bob-ford-leaving-the-philadelphia-inquirer-after-32-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Bob Ford Leaving the Philadelphia Inquirer After 32 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Bob Ford is leaving the paper after three decades, per him:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A little personal news. I think that&#39;s how everyone puts it. I&#39;m leaving the Inquirer after 32 years. My choice, my timing. The paper has been home for a long time, though, and it&#39;s hard to leave home. I will miss it, but am ready to do other things, assuming there are some.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bob Ford (@bobfordsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bobfordsports\/status\/1255506883043000321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bob was always a pleasure to talk to at Sixers games and practices. Great dude with a witty personality. Sardonic, but in a good way, if that makes any sense at all. He was one of those people you always sought out for conversation when he was in the building.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ford was a staple at the Inquirer since most of us were children or teenagers, covering the Phillies, Sixers, Eagles, and Flyers as a wide-ranging columnist. Even going through his archives at the Inquirer website, he wrote about the Olympics, Villanova, and March Madness in the past couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>His departure is the latest in a series of high-profile Inquirer exits. Last July, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/2019\/07\/john-smallwood-sam-donnellon-rick-obrien-taking-philadelphia-inquirer-daily-news-buyouts.html\">John Smallwood, Sam Donnellon, Rick O&#8217;Brien, and Stu Bykofsky took buyouts<\/a> as part of another round of cost-cutting measures. Zach Berman had earlier left for <em>The Athletic<\/em> while Mike Kern, Bob Vetrone, and Dick Jerardi departed at the end of 2017. Along the way, the Inquirer brain trust <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/2020\/03\/philadelphia-inquirer-offering-29-weeks-of-digital-access-for-29-cents-per-week.html\">has put forth dirt cheap offers<\/a> in an effort to get more readers to buy digital and print subscriptions, and now the latest legacy media obstacle is a global pandemic which has completely shut down the sports world.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these veterans are leaving on their own terms, and some aren&#8217;t, and it&#8217;s difficult to know how many of these media lay offs and cuts are truly due to COVID-19 or whether companies like Gannett and Entercom had targeted specific folks prior to the pandemic. The latter happened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/2020\/04\/sources-rob-charry-out-at-94-wip.html\">with the Rob Charry situation<\/a>, I&#8217;m told, but either way, there seems to be a significant changing of the guard taking place in the world of sports media, with a number of well-known personalities moving on to retirement, or other things.<\/p>\n<p>Best of luck to Bob Ford, a fantastic writer and quality human being.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT:<\/p>\n<p>Reached out to Bob and this is what he had to say &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Took a buyout. My choice. No pressure, not COVID related. I&#8217;m 65 and want to do other things and it was a good deal. Not much more complicated than that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Bob Ford is leaving the paper after three decades, per him: A little personal news. I think that&#39;s how everyone puts it. I&#39;m leaving the Inquirer after 32 years. 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