Ellis also participates as part of his job in discussion forums with readers, and answers their questions. Lagging online sports journalism Entertainment Web writers face many of the same problems and challenges as online sports journalists, who struggle with gaining access to major games, and players and coaches for interviews. Ellis says in his experience, some of the networks still don't know what to do with his requests, putting him off rather than citing a policy one way of the other regarding access for online sites. He doesn't consider newspaper sites as in the same league, since most simply repurpose their print TV columnists' work for their Web sites. This week, MediaOne announced that it will close its Denver site, bringing the total number of city guide sites to be shut down to four.
Summer seems to be a popular time to trot out news Web site redesigns.
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